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Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet and mathematics program that can make calculations and graphs based on data the user enters.
The main file formats are .xls and .xlsx.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a program that creates presentations and slideshows.
They can have text, drawing, pictures and media.
They can also be set up to show on a projector.
Microsoft Outlook is an email client that can send and receive emails.
The user can add a contact list and multiple calendars.
Microsoft Access is a database program where people can store data over many tables.
Microsoft Publisher is a program that lets people make layouts for newsletters and presentations to print.
Microsoft InfoPath is a program for designing, distributing, filling and submitting electronic forms containing structured data.
Based on XML.
Microsoft Visio is a shaping program not included in Microsoft Office Suites but can be bought in volume editions.
Originally included in Microsoft Office.
Microsoft FrontPage is a HTML WYSIWYG program included in the Office 2003 Suite.
It has been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web in the Expression Series.
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Microsoft Office 365 is a new way of sharing Microsoft Office documents with people from your organization or between your computers, syncing to the cloud.
In order to sync to the cloud, you need a Microsoft account.
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
It was originally the dialect that developed among the Afrikaner Protestant settlers, the unfree workers, and slaves brought to the Cape area in southwestern South Africa by the Dutch East India Company ( - VOC) between 1652 and 1705.
Most of these first settlers were from the United Provinces (now Netherlands), though there were also many from Germany, some from France, a few from Scotland, and various other countries.
The unfree workers and slaves were Malays, and Malagasy in addition to the native Khoi and Bushmen.
A sizeable minority of those who speak Afrikaans as a first language are not white.
The dialect became known as "Cape Dutch".
Later, Afrikaans was sometimes called "African Dutch" or "Kitchen Dutch".
Afrikaans was considered a Dutch dialect until the early 20th century, when it began to be widely known as a different language.
The name Afrikaans is simply the Dutch word for African, and the language is the African form of Dutch.
Afrikaans-English Dictionary On-line
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer and conductor.
He was born Louis Bernstein in Lawrence, Massachusetts to Ukrainian Jewish parents.
He is best known for conducting the New York Philharmonic and composing West Side Story and Candide.
He was a heavy smoker who had emphysema.
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The Afrikaans Language Monument () is the only monument in the world dedicated to a language.
It is on a hill overlooking the Teachers' Training College in Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Completed in 1975, it was built to celebrate the 100 years birthday of Afrikaans being declared as a different language from Dutch.
The monument is made of tapering structures of a convex and concave nature.
They show the influences of different languages and cultures on Afrikaans itself.
They are also a symbol of political developments in South Africa, as follows:
Clear West - the European source of the language
Magical Africa - the African influences on the language
Bridge - between Europe and Africa
Afrikaans - the language itself
Republic - declared in 1961
Malay language and culture
van Wyk Louw inscription
-- N.P. van Wyk Louw
"Afrikaans is the language that connects Western Europe and Africa... It forms a bridge between the large, shining West and the magical Africa... And what great things may come from their union – that is maybe what lies ahead for Afrikaans to discover.
But what we must never forget, is that this change of country and landscape sharpened, kneaded and knitted this newly-becoming language... And so Afrikaans became able to speak out from this new land... Our task lies in the use that we make and will make of this gleaming tool..."
Langenhoven inscription
-- C.J. Langenhoven
"If we plant a row of poles down this hall now, ten poles, to represent the last ten years, and on each pole we make a mark at a height from the floor corresponding to the relative written use of Afrikaans in the respective year, and we draw a line, from the first here near the floor to the last over there against the loft, then the line would describe a rapidly rising arc, not only quickly rising, but rising in a quickly increasing manner.
Let us now, in our imagination, extend the arc for the ten coming years from now.
See you, sirs, where the point shall be, outside in the blue sky high over Bloemfontein, in the year 1924."
Dit Is Ons Erns
The phrase "DIT IS ONS ERNS" ("we are earnest [about this]", or "this is our earnestness") is inscribed on the pathway leading up to the monument.
Monuments and memorials
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book company.
It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., which itself is owned by Time Warner.
Its first well-known comics were such as Action Comics, Detective Comics and All Star Comics.
They were essential in introducing three well known superheroes: Superman (1938), Batman (1939), and Wonder Woman (1941).
Its top rival is Marvel Comics.
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, which is best well known for making "superhero" comic books.
DC Comics is very famous in the modern art subject Graphics.
The company features some of the most iconic superheroes such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Static, Zatanna, and Shazam.
Most of their characters take place within the fictional DC Universe (DCU) and features some of the most famous and recognizable teams including the Justice League, the Justice Society of America, the Green Lantern Corps.,
the Gotham City Sirens, the Birds of Prey, the Young Justice, the Suicide Squad, and the Teen Titans.
The universe also features a wide variety of well-known fictional supervillains such as Lex Luthor, the Joker, Darkseid, Harley Quinn, General Zod, the Penguin, Brainiac, Catwoman, Doomsday, Bane, Ares, Ra's al Ghul, Maxwell Lord, Deathstroke, the Cheetah, Sinestro, Black Manta, the Reverse-Flash, and Black Adam.
What is known today as DC Comics was founded in 1934 by publishing entrepreneur Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson under the name of "National Allied Publications".
DC was formed by the merging of "National Allied Publications" and "Detective Comics Inc", as well as the affiliated "All-American Publications".
Despite being officially known as "National Comics", the comic covers carried a "DC" logo and were referred to as a result of its nickname: "DC Comics".
People had nicknamed it "DC" because of one its most popular comic series; Detective Comics and thus was born one of the world's most recognizable comic book brandings along with rivals Marvel publishing.
DC Comics has its current official headquarters at 1700 Broadway, 7th, New York, New York.
Random House distributes DC Comics' books to the bookstore market, while Diamond Comics Distributors supplies the comics shop specialty market.
National Allied Publications' first comic was New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 which was released in the February of 1935.
It hit off, and was surprisingly popular.
Later that year, a second title was released: New Comics #1.
The size and length New Comics #1 became the archetype for many comics afterwards, and it became the longest running comic series of all time.
In 1938, National launched Action Comics, which featured the brand new character from regular contributors Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Superman.
Originally dismissed as "silly" by editorial, reports soon came back noting the popularity and sales increase resulting from the Superman feature.
Superman quickly became a sensation and before long, dozens of imitations from both National and other publishing houses appeared almost overnight.
Writer Bill Finger and his artist employer Bob Kane soon submitted Batman to appear in Detective Comics and before long, and his artist H.G. Peter and William Moulton Marston feature best submitted Wonder Woman to appear in All Star Comics.
The featuring superheroes Superman and Batman, and an entire Justice Society of America had been formed including properties such as The Flash, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Wonder Woman, Hawkman and The Spectre, to name a few, many of whom were either created or written by the prolific Gardner Fox.
With the establishment of DC as one of the major comic book companies and with many of the most marketable names in the early years of comics, it is sometimes considered the main company that other companies had to compete with.
Companies tried different approaches, One that succeeded and often outsold DC for instance was Fawcett Publications who had a character who some consider similar to Superman who was an all-powerful hero with a supporting "family" known as Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family, whereas other companies such as Charlton Comics created entire new worlds preventing DC from attacking them with lawsuits.
Further along in the Silver Age many of these companies failed or like Fawcett were sued out of existence.
Thus although they had once been competitors, many of the soon public domain properties of Fawcett and Charlton were eventually revived and trademarked and seemingly taken under DC's control.
Silver and Bronze Age
During the post-War years, the popularity of superheroes had declined almost completely, though DC and other publishers were still going strong moving into other genres such as funny animals, romance, Sci-Fi, Westerns and horror.
Major characters such as Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman has managed to remain in publication and by the mid-1950s the superhero was again due for a comeback.
Showcase #4 in 1956 introduced readers to Barry Allen, the all-new Flash re-imagined with a sleeker design and steeped much heavier in science fiction (and the older Golden Age heroes being relegated to existing on Earth Two).
Characters such as The Atom, Green Lantern and the JSA, now reinvented as the Justice League of America soon followed and a new superhero boom was kicked off.
During this time, The Comics Code Authority has also come into play, which drastically subdued the content available in the comic book medium.
Many of the stories during the period moved away from more controversial horror or violent themes.
With the reinvigoration of Marvel in the 1960s under the leadership of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, DC found itself a new and more potent competitor.
Marvel succeeded by breaking what had become by then generic archetypes of superheroes by introducing characters which were younger and more flawed (and thus appeared more human and appealed to a younger crowd in a more direct manner.)
After falling behind Marvel in sales, DC was finally forced to adopt much of the same system which Marvel had, by introducing such young teams as the Teen Titans to compete with the X-Men.
Modern Age and Crisis On Infinite Earths
In 1985, DC Comics decided its 50 years of continuity and numerous alternative Earths had become too messy and was in need of new blank slate.
DC penned one of the first major comic book crossovers that incorporated almost every DC title and character ever published by the company.
The series ended with multiple Earths being erased and merging into to one unified Earth.
Following this, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman were given new leases of life thanks to big name creators such as John Byrne, Frank Miller and George Perez that redefined the elderly heroes for a new generation.
During this same period, the comic audience has begun to grow up and the direct market for comic stores had opened allowing a wider variety of publications to be experimented with.
One such experiment involved bringing in British writer Alan Moore to pen the low selling Saga of the Swamp Thing series.
What resulted was style of comic book not experienced before by mainstream readers in its literary and story driven complexity and execution.
Before long, other writers from across the pond such as Neil Gaiman, Peter Milligan and Grant Morrison were recruited to revamp obscure properties and tell new and interesting stories with an older audience in mind.
1986 saw the release of two seminal works from DC Comics, Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen that reached unprecedented levels of critical acclaim and outside media attention.
By the 90's DC and the entire comic book industry experienced a boom in mature comics aimed at older audiences and simultaneously witnessed a collector's boom that increased sales but almost caused the industry to collapse soon after.
In 1993, senior editor Karen Berger convinced DC to make her own imprint for mature readers named Vertigo, similar to DC imprints Piranha Press and Paradox Press as well as Marvel's Epic Comics.
Using popular titles such as Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, The Sandman and Shade, The Changing Man as its blueprint along side new creator owned material, DC/Vertigo became a hub for intelligent and acclaimed comic books.
While rival Marvel Comics continued to dominate the publishing arena with their exceedingly popular properties, DC/Vertigo became the destination for literary and inventive titles during the period.
In 1999, DC purchased Jim Lee's WildStorm Productions, formerly one of the founding studios of Image.
The line of WildStorm comics and properties came under DC's control though the line continued to be published on the West Coast away from DC editorial until 2010.
DC Comics series
The three most original highest-grossing and longest-running series includes Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
All Star Comics
Sensation Comics
All Star DC Comics
In 2000 Marvel Comics started an imprint called ultimate marvel in which the characters' origin is changed and modernized.
This eventually led DC to starting an imprint of their own in 2005, thus All Star was born.
Both All-Star series are in their own continuity, except All-Star Batman and Robin which was part of Earth-31.
All-Star Batman
All-Star Batman was an ongoing series that premiered on August 2016 as part of the DC Rebirth relaunch, and ran for 14 issues until October 2017.
The creative team consisted of writer Scott Snyder and multiple artists, mainly John Romita Jr.. Despite the title, the series told stories that were set in the mainstream DC Universe continuity.
All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder
All-Star Batman started in 2005 and was written by Frank Miller and Penciled by Jim Lee.
This was the first series in the All Star imprint and opened to mainly negative reviews but had high sales.
The series was released in a sporadic schedule.
The series only reached 10 issues (2008) 2 issues before the intended end of the series.
All-Star Superman started in 2006 and was written by Grant Morrison and Penciled by Frank Quitley.
This was the second series under the All Star imprint, the first being All-Star Batman and Robin.
The series opened to mainly good reviews and went on to win the Eisner Award for best new series in 2006 and best ongoing series in 2007 and 2009.
Like All-Star Batman the series was also released in a sporadic schedule.
The series ended with issue 12.
The series overall has widely considered to be one of the best Superman stories of all time.
All Star Wonder Woman
All Star Wonder Woman started in 2006 and was written by Adam Hughes from San Diego Con 2006.
In 2011, after a period of declining comic sales, DC announced they were cancelling all the main titles and starting over with all New 52's as part of a relaunch.
In charge of the relaunch is Geoff Johns and Jim Lee.
The relaunch started with the release of Justice League #1 on August 31st.
this was done partially to revitalize the company and to de-age the characters and thus make them more dynamic.
On January 12, 2012, it was announced that there would be a second wave of the new 52 where six titles would be getting canceled with another six to replace them, though the plan to stay at 52 ongoing monthlies seems to be consistent.
DC also released a Third wave in September 2012, one year after the relaunch in September 2011.
One book in the Third Wave, Talon, starring Calvin Rose was the first solo book for a character who was introduced in the New 52.
The Fourth wave started in January 2013 and ended in March 2013, meaning that it was the first wave not to come out in a single month.
The Fifth Wave consisted of titles such as the Movement, the Green Team and Superman Unchained.
The New 52 had proved to be so successful with critics, fans and commercially that Marvel the main competitor of DC decided to do a relaunch of their own called "Marvel NOW!"
in late 2012.
Relocating from Manhattan to Burbank
In 2015, DC Entertainment moved their entire operations from their Manhattan headquarters in New York City to their new home in Burbank, California.
DC's digital and administrative departments had already been relocated to Burbank beginning in 2010.
The new office is only a few blocks from their corporate parent company, Warner Bros. Studios.
DC Imprints and Sub-Imprints
Vertigo (1993-)
MAD/ MAD Magazine (Acquired by Warner in the 60's, integrated with DC Comics around 2001.)
WildStorm (1999-2010)*
CMX (2004-2010)
Homage Comics
America's Best Comics (1999-2010)
Helix (1996-1998)
Tangent Comics (1997-2008)
Paradox Press (1993-2001)
Piranha Press (1989-1994)
Humanoids (2004)
2000AD (Reprints from Rebellion's 2000 AD line)
Milestone (Owned by Milestone Media)
Minx (2007-2008)
Zuda (2007-2010)
*the imprint was founded in 1992 but as part of the Image conglomerate and only moved to DC in 1999.
Over the years, DC Comics' parent company Warner Bros. (with a few exceptions) has produced a variety of feature films based on DC Comics properties for cinematic release, including TV shows, action figures, and video games which have made them even more popular.
1934 establishments in the United States
is:DC Comics
Wonder Woman is a superhero who appears in comic books published by DC Comics.
She is one of the first female superheroes in American comic books and the most famous, most recognizable female superhero in the world.
William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who believed that women could be as strong and powerful as men, created Wonder Woman, partly inspired by his wife, Elizabeth Holloway-Marston.
Wonder Woman first appeared in the pages of All-Star Comics # 8, published in December 1941.
Her first solo comic book debuted in the summer of 1942, when Wonder Woman # 1 was published.
In the comic book, Wonder Woman's real name is Diana, and she is the daughter of Queen Hippolyta, ruler of the Amazons, a race of peace-loving women who lived in an island named Themyscira (also referred to as Paradise Island).
Soon after Steve Trevor, a US Air Force pilot, crash-lands on Paradise Island during World War II, Diana and the amazons tend to his wounds and help him recover.
Diana decides that she will bring him back to the United States; once there she becomes the superhero that the world calls Wonder Woman.
Her best-known powers are superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes, as well as flight.
She has a magic lasso that compels those bound by it to tell the truth, and unbreakable gauntlets that can deflect bullets.
Ares - the Greek god of war, whose energy and almost infinite powers are fueled by war and hatred among humans
Circe - an ancient sorceress who can transform men into animals
The Cheetah - a British archaeologist who possesses an ancient mystical artifact that turns her into a Cheetah-like were woman with incredible  speed,reflexes, and strength, and thirst for blood
Silver Swan - a flying villainess whose main power is a highly destructive sonic cry
Dr. Psycho - a powerful psychokinetic man with a deep hatred for women
Devastation - a powerful villainess with powers that mirror Wonder Woman's; she was created by the children of Chronus in order to destroy Wonder Woman and help take over Olympus
In Other media
Wonder Woman had also appeared in animated cartoons and in a live-action television program in the 1970s with actress Lynda Carter.
The series made the character very famous.
In January 2001, producer Joel Silver asked Todd Alcott to write a Wonder Woman screenplay.
Early rumours listed actresses such as Mariah Carey, Sandra Bullock, and Catherine Zeta-Jones to play the role of Wonder Woman.
Leonard Goldberg, speaking in a May 2001 interview, named Sandra Bullock as a strong candidate for the project.
Bullock said that she was asked to play the role.
Lucy Lawless and Chyna both were interested in it.
The screenplay then went through many versions written by many different writers.
By August 2003, Levens was replaced by screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis.
In March 2005, Warner Bros. said that Joss Whedon would write and direct the movie version of Wonder Woman.
Because Whedon was directing Serenity at the time and needed time to learn Wonder Woman's background, he did not start writing until late 2005.
Silver wanted to movie Wonder Woman in Australia once the script was finished.
In May 2005, Whedon said that he would not cast Wonder Woman until he finished the script.
Charisma Carpenter and Morena Baccarin said they were interested in the role.
In February 2007, Whedon left the project.
He said there were problems with differences about the script between the studio and himself.
Whedon said that since he was not doing the Wonder Woman project, he would focus on making his movie Goners.
Gal Gadot played Wonder Woman in the upcoming 2016 action movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
She was also the lead role of the 2017 superhero film Wonder Woman.
She will play the role again in Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).
On October 21, 2016, the United Nations controversially named Wonder Woman a UN Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.
The character was dropped from the role two months later after a petition against the appointment stated Wonder Woman was an overly sexualized image".
Wonder Woman's Official Website
Wonder Woman's Origin @ DC Comics
Alan Kistler's History of Wonder Woman
Carol A. Strickland's Wonder Woman site
Fictional characters introduced in 1941
Robert Lane "Bob" Saget (May 17, 1956 – January 9, 2022) was an American comedian and actor.
He was best known for his appearances on television as Danny Tanner on Full House and the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos.
He was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014 for a comedy album that he made.
Robert Lane Saget was born on May 17, 1956, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Dolly and Benjamin Saget.
He attended Abington Senior High School in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, before attending Temple University.
Saget married Sherri Kramer on May 16, 1982, and had three children with Kramer: Aubrey, Lara, and Jennifer.
The pair divorced on November 10, 1997.
He married Kelly Rizzo on October 30, 2018.
On January 9, 2022, Saget was found dead at his hotel room in Orange County, Florida near Orlando at the age of 65.
The cause of death was a subdural hematoma and a subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by head trauma after falling and hitting the back of his head.
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In the United States of America
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Wilmington Island, Georgia
South Wilmington, Illinois - Grundy County, Illinois
Wilmington, Greene County, Illinois
Wilmington Township, Minnesota
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Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania
Wilmington Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania
Wilmington, Devon
Wilmington, Kent
Wilmington, Sussex
Wilmington, South Australia
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins (born 30 January 1951) is a British drummer, songwriter, actor and singer.
He was born in Chiswick, Hounslow, Middlesex.
He was the drummer and singer of the band Genesis.
He is very well known for his career away from the band, as a solo artist.
His most well known album is No Jacket Required, which has sold over ten million copies in the United States.
One of his most well known songs is "In the Air Tonight", which had a long running false rumour that it was about a drowning that Collins had witnessed.
Collins starred in the movie Buster (1988).
His daughter Lily Collins is a famous actress.
Collins won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for "You'll Be in My Heart" for the 1999 movie Tarzan.
Face Value (1981)
Hello, I Must Be Going! (
1982)
No Jacket Required (1985)
...But Seriously (1989)
Both Sides (1993)
Dance into the Light (1996)
Testify (2002)
Going Back (2010)
Collins suffered an injury in 2009.
The surgery to correct the injury to his neck went wrong.
Due to this, he has not been able to play drums.
He has to use a cane while walking.
He has to be seated in a chair when performing on stage.
Phil Collins at Atlantic Records
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Badfinger was a British rock group.
They were first called The Iveys, but renamed themselves after a song title, "Badfinger Boogie", the original title of "With a Little Help From My Friends".
The band's members were Peter Ham, Tom Evans, Mike Gibbins and Joey Molland.
Badfinger recorded for Apple Records, which was a record label started by The Beatles, Warner Brothers, Elektra Records, and Radio Records.
Their first hit record was "Come And Get It", which was written by Paul McCartney.
It appeared in a movie, The Magic Christian.
The band followed McCartney's demo closely to make the record.
The finished record sounded like a Beatles song.
Later they made records that sounded different, and showed the band's own style.
Todd Rundgren was the producer of some of their recordings.
Badfinger's other hit records included "No Matter What", "Day After Day", and "Baby Blue".
Later they left Apple Records and recorded for Warner Bros. Ham and Evans were the band's main songwriters.
One of their songs, "Without You", was recorded by the band, but was not a hit.
A later cover version by singer Harry Nilsson became an international hit, and was the first of many such versions.
Many recording artists have sung "Without You", including Mariah Carey.
In 1970 Badfinger made an agreement with an American businessman called Stan Polley who promised to help them earn more money.
But instead of helping them, Polley kept their money away from them in an account and refused to tell them how to get it out.
He also behaved dishonestly toward Warner Bros. Because of his dishonesty, the band's sixth album was removed from shops after being available for only seven weeks, and Warner Bros. refused to release their seventh album.
As a result, the band did not earn any money for their hard work, which made Pete Ham feel very depressed.
Feeling that he could not be a good husband or father without any money, Ham committed suicide by hanging himself in 1975.
Evans and Molland decided they still wanted to work together.
Mike Gibbins, the drummer, wanted to as well, but could not.
They found two more musicians to take the place of Ham and Gibbins, and recorded a new album called "Airwaves".
They had only one very small hit, but continued to tour.
They released another record called "Say No More".
This record had cover art by artist Peter Max.
1970s establishments in England
1984 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of six main parts of the United Nations.
The Security Council deals with maintaining peace and security between nations.
There are 15 members of the UNSC but only five are permanent members.
The ten temporary seats are held for two years with member states (countries) voted in by the United Nations General Assembly on a regional basis.
The Presidency of the Security Council (i.e. the leadership) is rotated alphabetically each month.
Estonia (2021)
India (2022)
Ireland (2022)
Kenya (2022)
Mexico (2022)
Niger (2021)
Norway (2022)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2021)
Tunisia (2021)
Viet Nam (2021)
If a country has behaved in a way seen as bad, the member countries of UNSC can make a ruling, known as a United Nations Security Council Resolution.
All five of the permanent member countries must either agree to this ruling or at least not vote against it; if any of them do, it is said to have been "vetoed" and does not come into effect.
This Resolution may call for UN members to take certain actions to punish the country, called "sanctions".
An example is that the UNSC had long banned all imports of nuclear fuel to Iran as they felt Iran was going to make nuclear weapons.
These sanctions resulted in rules which made it much harder for Iran to do business with people in the rest of the world.
These actions made life harder in Iran, both for its government and regular people as well.
Most people think that is why Iran was willing to promise to change how it used nuclear material in order to end these rules.
The Permanent Members of the Security Council worked together in ending this problem; Germany has also conferenced with the permanent UN Security Council members about this issue.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is the most powerful part of the United Nations.
For members of the UN to engage in war or major military activity against another country or a large armed group outside of their own country they are supposed to have the agreement of the Security Council to do so but recent history shows that this rule is often not closely followed by everyone.
All members of the UN retain the right to "self-defense"; they can engage in actions to defend their people and land whenever this becomes necessary but are then expected to refer the matter to the Security Council as soon as they can.
UNSC website
Security Council
The high jump is a track and field athletics event.
Without the aid of any devices, athletes jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights.
The high jump was first practised in England in the 19th century.
It became an Olympic sport in 1896 for men and in 1928 for women.
The rules that were made in 1865 still exist today.
Thus, every athlete has three attempts on every height.
The athletes are allowed to touch the bar but they must not knock it down.
The women's world record of 2.09 metres is held by Stefka Kostadinova.
It was set in 1987.
There is a technique called the Fosbury flop and scissor kick.
Manhattan is one of the five boroughs that make up New York City, and is the center of the New York metropolitan area.
It is also located over the same area as a county of New York state called New York County.
Although it is the smallest borough, it is the most densely populated borough.
Most of the borough of Manhattan is on Manhattan Island, but the Marble Hill neighborhood is part of the mainland United States (by way of the Bronx).
Several smaller islands, including Roosevelt Island, are also part of Manhattan.
The Dutch bought it from the Native Americans and called it New Amsterdam, then the English took it over and changed the name to New York.
The name Manhattan comes from the Munsi language of the Lenni Lenape meaning island of many hills.
Other theories say that it comes from one of three Munsi words. "
Manahactanienk" meaning "place of inebriation".
Other possibilities are "manahatouh" meaning "a place where wood is available for making bows and arrows" and "menatay" meaning simply "the island."
Manhattan is an important commercial, financial, and cultural center of both the United States and the world.
Most major radio, television, and telecommunications companies in the United States are based there, as well as many news, magazine, book, and other media publishers.
Manhattan has many famous landmarks, tourist attractions, museums, and universities.
It also has the headquarters of the United Nations.
Before colonization, the Lenape Indians lived in the area that is now called Manhattan.
In 1524, Lenape people in canoes met Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to pass New York Harbor, although he may not have entered the harbor past the Narrows.
Henry Hudson, an Englishman who worked for the Dutch East India Company, made the first map of the area.
Colonial times
In the 1620s, the first large European colony was started in New Netherland, when the Dutch began trading fur on Governors Island.
In 1625, the Dutch chose Manhattan Island to build Fort Amsterdam,  a citadel for the protection of the new arrivals.
It would later be called New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam).
The creation of New Amsterdam was recognized as the birth of New York City.
On May 24, 1626, Manhattan was bought from the Native Americans living on the island.
The price was trading goods worth 60 guilders, which was worth about 24 dollars at the time.
The currency calculations from the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam say that 60 guilders in the 1620s cost around $1000 now.
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant became the last Dutch Director General of the colony.
New Amsterdam was considered an official city on 3 February 1653.
In 1664, the British conquered New Netherland and renamed it "New York" after the English King James II, then known as Duke of York and Albany.
Stuyvesant and his council made a deal with the British where New Netherlanders were promised liberties, including freedom of religion, under British rule.
In August 1673, the Dutch took control of the island again, calling the city "New Orange" (Dutch: Nieuwe Oranje).
The Dutch lost control of New Netherland forever to the English in November 1674 by treaty.
Manhattan was the center of many campaigns, battles and meetings during the American Revolution.
In 1765, all of the colonies worked together for a unified political aim when the Stamp Act Congress (meeting) of representatives from across the Thirteen Colonies was held in New York City to write The Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
The Sons of Liberty, a Boston based group, were part of a long-term battle with British authorities over liberty poles that were sometimes raised by the Sons of Liberty and cut down by the British.
The disputes ended when the revolutionary New York Provincial Congress took power in 1775.
Manhattan was the center of a series of large battles in the early American Revolutionary War.
These battles were called the New York Campaign, where British forces and colonists fought for control of New York City and the state of New Jersey.
The rebel Continental Army, led by George Washington, had to leave Manhattan after losing the Battle of Fort Washington on 16 November 1776.
Shortly after, Manhattan was greatly damaged by the Great Fire of New York in 1776.
Victory gave the British control of the area.
They used the city as the center for political and military activities for the rest of the war.
Loyalists from elsewhere came to the city as refugees from the Rebels and to join the war.
Years later, Washington came back to Manhattan with his army.
On Evacuation Day, the last British occupation forces left the city on 25 November 1783.
On 30 April, 1789, Washington was inaugurated (officially became) the first president of the United States and took his oath of office at Federal Hall on Wall Street.
Immigration influx and Gilded Age
In the early 19th century, Manhattan grew in population and economically.
Another great fire in 1835 destroyed much of the city but it was soon rebuilt.
Because of the Great Irish Famine, a lot of Irish people emigrated (left their country) to live in New York; they made up for 25% of Manhattan's population at the time.
Many of the Irish people lived in a part of the Lower East Side known as the Bowery or in another section called Five Points.
After the Civil War, many immigrants of Italian, Polish and Jewish backgrounds came to Manhattan and lived in tenements in a part of the city called the Lower East Side.
Over a million people lived in the area at one point.
An Irish political machine called Tammany Hall was very important to New York City during the Gilded Age.
With the support of mostly Irish immigrants, it grew as a political machine.
The support helped win the election for the first Tammany mayor, Fernando Wood, in 1854.
Central Park, which opened to the public in 1858, became the first landscaped park in any American city and the country's first public park.
The rate of immigration from Europe shot up after the Civil War, and New York became the most popular state for immigrants in the United States.
Because of this, the French built and gave New York the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886.
Soon after, the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn were combined into one city.
Economic downfall and rise
In the beginning of the 20th century, many new things were built in the city, like skyscrapers and the New York City Subway.
The first subway transit center, the Interborough Rapid Transit or IRT, opened to the public in 1904.
The installation of the Subway helped tie the new city together, as did new bridges to Brooklyn.
In the 1920s, many African-Americans came to live in Manhattan during the Great Migration from the American South, and the Harlem Renaissance.
New York City became the most populous city (city with the most people) in the world in 1925, overtaking London, which had held the title for a century.
Between World War I and World War II, reformist Fiorello La Guardia was elected as the new mayor in 1933 and took office in 1934, marking the fall of Tammany Hall after 80 years of dominating politics in New York City.
Once the city's demographics were steadier, labor unionization provided protection and affluence to the working class.
Despite the Great Depression, some of the world's tallest skyscrapers of the time were built in Manhattan during the 1930s, including many Art Deco masterpieces that are still part of the city's skyline today.
The most well-known structures are Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the GE Building.
Following the end of World War II, a lot of veterans came home to the United States.
This led to the development of private communities that were intended to be sold or rented out to returning soldiers, resulting in an economic boom.
An example of one of the communities built to attract veterans looking for homes is Stuyvesant Town—Peter Cooper Village, which opened in 1947.
In 1951, the United Nations relocated from its first headquarters in Queens, to the East Side of Manhattan.
Population and industry began to decline in the 1960s.
The Stonewall riots were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the gay community.
By the 1970s, the city had gained a reputation as a graffiti-covered, crime-ridden relic of history.
In 1975, the city government went bankrupt (ran out of money), and its pleas for financial help were rejected at first.
On 30 October 1975, the New York Daily News reported the event with the headline as "Ford to City: Drop Dead".
The city received a federal loan and debt restructuring.
After the economic downfall and recovery, New York State kept a close watch on New York City's economy.
In the 1980s, Wall Street was revived from its slump, and the city reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry.
During this time, Manhattan was also at the heart of the AIDS crisis, with Greenwich Village being a major center of the epidemic.
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) and AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) were organizations that were started because of the crisis.
Their purpose was to advocate on behalf of those AIDs victims.
Crime rates began to drop greatly in the 1990s.
Murder rates were 537 in 2008 compared to 2,245 in 1990.
The crack epidemic and its associated drug-related violence had died down, and was under great control by the city.
Many people who had moved out of the city came back because the city once again became the destination of immigrants from around the world, joining with low interest rates and Wall Street bonuses to fuel the growth of the real estate market.
New Yorker's Guide to Manhattan
Islands of New York
The Bronx is the northern part of New York City, United States.
The name came from Bronck's Farms, owned by a settler called Jonas Bronck.
The Bronx was once the southern part of Westchester County, but is now one of the five boroughs of New York City as well as a county in New York State called Bronx County.
The Bronx River flows south out of Yonkers and Mount Vernon, New York, through the middle of The Bronx, and into Long Island Sound.
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Wave Hill: New York Public Garden and Cultural Center
Arthur Avenue (little italy)
1890s establishments in New York (state)
Bob Denver (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005) was an American actor.
He was best known for his roles as Gilligan on the 1960s television series Gilligan's Island and  Maynard G. Krebs on the earlier Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
He appeared on many other shows including The Good Guys, Dusty's Trail, and Far-Out Space Nuts, but these could not match his success as Gilligan.
In 1998, he was arrested for marijuana possession and in 2005, he underwent heart surgery.
After that he learned he had cancer.
Before he became an actor, Denver worked as a mailman and a high school teacher.
Deaths from cancer
Note that 1100 is the last year of the 11th century.
1101 is the first year of the 12th century.
August 5 – Henry I crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey
May 23 – Emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, English conjoined twins (died 1134)
Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1148)
August 2 – William II of England
A monk is a man  who devoted part or all of his life to a religion.
The word comes from Ancient Greek, and can be translated as solitary.
In Greek, the word can apply to women, but in modern English it is mainly used for men.
The word nun is usually used for female monastics.
Monks practice asceticism.
They either live alone, or together with other monks who share the same ideals.
Monks can be found in different religions, most often in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism and Taoism.
The monks who live on their own are usually called  hermits, those living with other monks do so in monasteries.
Nuns living together do so in a convent.
Poverty: the monk cannot own anything.
Chastity: the monk cannot have sex or a sexual relationship and cannot start a family or get married.
Solitude: the monk should always be alone.
Some monks choose to not follow this law.
Silence: the monk shall not speak unless it is necessary.
Generosity: the monk should always help other people.
Stillness: the monk cannot travel far unless it is necessary.
Sometimes this means that the monk must be cloistered which means that they must not leave their monastery (especially Warsa period).
Sometimes they can be allowed to leave, but must not go very far.
Duty: The monk must do some things every day.
For example, the monk must pray or meditate and must do some work.
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Dream Theater (often called DT for short) is a progressive metal and progressive rock band formed in the mid-1980s in the United States.
James LaBrie (vocals)
John Myung (electric basses)
John Petrucci (guitar)
Jordan Rudess (keyboards)
Mike Mangini (drums)
Chris Collins (vocals)
Charlie Dominici (vocals)
Kevin Moore (keyboards)
Derek Sherinian (keyboards)
Mike Portnoy (drums)
The band was founded by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy.
Myung and Petrucci are the only original members that are still in the band today.
They changed their singer twice in the late 1980s when Chris Collins was replaced by Charles Dominici in 1987.
Dominici left the band only three years later, in 1990, and James LaBrie joined and stayed until today.
Dream Theater's keyboardist also changed three times.
Kevin Moore played with the band from 1986 until 1995 when he left and Derek Sherinan took his position until 1999.
Jordan Rudess is Dream Theater's Keyboardist now.
He is known for his excellent technique and compositional skills.
In September 2010, drummer Mike Portnoy left Dream Theater, and was replaced by Mike Mangini.
The members of Dream Theater are known for having excellent playing technique of their instruments, and for their songwriting.
Their music is very complex and the songs are often long, their longest being Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence at 42 minutes in length.
Their songs contain a lot of instrumental sections, in which no vocals are heard and only the instruments play (these parts are called "instrumental passages") and also many solos.
Another feature of their music is that during each song, the speed often changes, and occasionally style changes too.
They once said that other bands have trouble making long songs.
They said they have trouble making "short" songs.
Most of Dream Theater's music is very difficult to play because of the high speed it has to be played with and the complex rhythm.
When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
Images and Words (1992)
Awake (1994)
Falling into Infinity (1997)
Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence (2002)
Train of Thought (2003)
Octavarium (2005)
Systematic Chaos (2007)
Black Clouds & Silver Linings (2009)
A Dramatic Turn of Events (2011)
Dream Theater (2013)
The Astonishing (2016)
Distance Over Time (2019)
A View from the Top of the World (2021)
Dream Theater's official website
Musical groups from New York
A triangle is a shape, or a part of two dimensional space.
It has three straight sides and three vertices.
The three angles of a triangle always add up to 180° (180 degrees).
It is the polygon with the least possible number of sides.
A triangle with vertices A, B, C is written as .
Types of triangles
if all the three sides of a triangle have the same length, then it is an equilateral triangle.
if a triangle has two sides with the same length, then it is an isosceles triangle.
if all the three sides of a triangle have different lengths, then we have a scalene triangle.
if a triangle has a right angle, that is, if one of the angles of that triangle measures 90° (90 degrees), then it is a right triangle.
The opposite side to the right angle is the hypotenuse.
if a triangle has an obtuse angle, that is, if one of the angles of that triangle is larger than 90°, then it is an obtuse triangle.
if a triangle has only acute angles, that is, if all the angles of that triangle are less than 90°, then it is an acute triangle.
Triangles are extremely useful.
The study of geometry related to triangles is called trigonometry.
Some people have spent their entire lives studying triangles for use in trigonometry.
Feminism is a social, political, and economic movement.
Feminism is about changing the way that people see male and female rights (mainly female), and campaigning for equal ones.
Somebody who follows feminism is called a feminist.
Feminism began in the 18th century with the Enlightenment.
The controversy over the differences between the genders led to the discussion of equality.
History of feminism
The word "feminism" comes from the French word "féminisme".
This medical term was used to describe masculine women or men with feminized traits.
When its use became popular in the United States of America, it was used to refer to groups of women who "asserted the uniqueness of women, the mystical experience of motherhood and women's special purity ".
Feminism started with the idea that human rights should be given to women.
This idea was put forward by some philosophers in the 18th and 19th centuries such as Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill.
Later feminists in the early 20th century also said that women should be allowed to vote in a democracy.
Many women felt very strongly that they should be allowed to vote and there were many protests.