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Richard I of Normandy marries Emma of Paris
The Aksumite Empire is destroyed
Emperor Constantine VIII of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1028)
Theophanu, princess who became Empress (d. 991)
Sweyn I of Denmark (d. 1014)
Gershom ben Judah
Matsu, Taoist 'goddess' of the sea
Olof of Sweden
Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (d. 988)
Bagrat III (d. 1014), king of Abkhazians and Georgians
Seongjong of Goryeo (d. 997)
Saint Eadburga of Winchester
Časlav Klonimirović, ruler of Serbia
Ani becomes the capital of Armenia
The Huqiu Tower is built in China
Battle of Fitje
Harald II of Norway becomes ruler of the western part of Norway
St Paul's Cathedral in London is destroyed by fire
Al-Hakam II starts to rule
Edith of Wilton
Sigmundur Brestisson, chieftain in the Faroe Islands
King Haakon I of Norway
Abd-ar-rahman III, Caliph of Córdoba
Emperor Yuanzong of Southern Tang
February 2 – Pope John XII crowns Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor
Dong Yuan
Indulf, King of the Scots and Picts
Sebük Tigin starts his empire in modern-day Afghanistan
The Nanping State has to surrender when invaded by Song Dynasty armies
The Song Dynasty Chinese government tries to ban the practice of cremation
Holy Roman Emperor Otto I defeats Mieszko I of Poland
Luxembourg is founded
December 6 – Pope Leo VIII becomes the 131st pope
Li Jiqian, Tangut jiedushi who ruled the new Western Xia Dynasty in northwestern China (d. 1004)
March 15 – Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 939)
April 3 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine
April 18 – Stephen Lekapenos, co-emperor of Byzantium in 924–945
Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas tries to recapture Cilicia
Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars is published
May 22 – Pope Benedict V becomes the 132nd pope
June 23 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor battles in Rome to make Leo VIII Pope
May 14 – Pope John XII
The Khazar fortress of Sarkel falls to the Kievan Rus
Northern Song armies invade the Later Shu Kingdom
Elvira of Castile (daughter of García I), Regent of Leon (d. 1017)
Alhazen, scientist
February 22 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy
July 4 – Pope Benedict V
Meng Chang, Emperor of Later Shu
Mieszko I, the first duke of Poland, is baptized a Christian
Fujiwara no Michinaga, Japanese regent
King Dub of Scotland
Conchobar mac Tadg becomes King of Connacht
Otto II is crowned co-emperor by Pope John XIII
Olaf Tryggvason runs away from Norway with his mother
Emperor Reizei ascends to the throne of Japan
The Cambodian temple of Banteay Srei is consecrated
'Izz al-Daula becomes the Buyid emir of Iraq
Bisutun ascends to the Ziyarid throne
Sigrid Storrada, queen of Sweden and Denmark
Bolesław I, king of Poland
Louis V, king of France
Badi' al-Zamān al-Hamadhāni, Arab author
Walter von Speyer, German poet and bishop
Abusaeid Abolkheir, Persian Sufi
Khottiga Amoghavarsha, Rashtrakuta warrior
Vahram Pahlavouni, prince of Bjni and Nik
Bertha, princess of Burgundy
February 9 – Sayf al-Dawla, Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo
Abu al-Faraj Ali, scholar
Abu 'Ali Muhammad, Ilyasid ruler
Bolesław I, prince of Bohemia
Hugh II, lord of Lusignan
Krishna III, Rashtrakuta ruler
Mu'izz al-Daula, first Buyid emir
Murakami, emperor of Japan
Vushmgir, ruler of the Ziyarids
Wichmann the Younger, Saxon count
Matilda of Ringelheim, Holy Roman Empress
Dub mac Maíl Coluim, king of Alba
Li Cheng, Chinese painter
The Pechenegs begin the Siege of Kiev
The Archbishopric of Magdeburg is founded
May 14 – Leofric, Earl of Mercia
King Ethelred II of England
Emperor Kazan, emperor of Japan
Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (d. 1034)
Emperor Zhenzong of Song
August 25 – Edgiva of Kent, queen of Edward the Elder of England
Abu al-Misk Kafur
Aldred of Lindisfarne
John III of Naples
Landulf III of Benevento
William, Archbishop of Mainz
Matilda of Ringelheim
December 11 – John I Tzimiskes becomes Byzantine Emperor after killing Nikephoros II Phokas
The Fatimids conquer Egypt
Emperor En'yū replaces Emperor Reizei on the throne of Japan
Jing Zong begins to rule the Khitan Empire
Uththama Chola becomes the Chola Emperor
July 11 – Olga of Kiev
Harald II of Norway
December 11 – Nikephoros II Phokas
Emperor Muzong of Liao
Aleksander Kwaśniewski (; born 15 November 1954) is a Polish politician.
He served as President for two terms (1995-2000 and 2000-2005).
He was, before being elected first time, member of the Democratic Left Alliance, but after assumed duties he became an independent.
Before 1989 he was a member of Polish United Workers Party (communist).
He was preceded by Lech Wałęsa and succeeded by Lech Kaczyński.
He was born in Białogard in Northwest Poland.
Before became a politician, he was a journalist.
Before became President, he was minister and deputy to the Sejm.
In the late 1980s, he participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement.
Viola sororia, also known as Viola papilionacea, common blue violet, common meadow violet, and purple violet is a species of  violet.
It is a perennial flowering plant that lives in most of eastern North America.
Viola sororia  from the Connecticut Botanical Society
Viola sororia  from the Virginia Tech Weed Identification Guide
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Under the Rainbow is a 1981 comedy movie starring Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher, Eve Arden, and Billy Barty.
The plot is loosely based on the gathering of little people in a Hollywood hotel, to audition for roles as "munchkins" in the movie The Wizard of Oz.
The movie also has nobility, assassins, spies, and tourists.
1981 comedy movies
Gilli "िगल्ली" -danda "डन्डा" is a game played by children in India and Pakistan.
It is usually played by using a small round stick, about as long as a baseball or cricket bat.
This is the danda.
There is another smaller stick, round in the middle and tapering towards the ends.
This is the gilli.
The game gilli-danda is similar to cricket.
It is also believed to be the origin of cricket.
This game is also know as Viti Dandu, Kitti Pul and by other variations as well.
It is a sport originated from the Indian subcontinent and is also played in the rural areas as well as in small towns over southern Asia, Cambodia, Turkey, South Africa, Italy, Poland and in some Caribbean Islands like Cuba.
To play the game, one team uses the "danda" to hit one of the tapered ends of the "gilli" with force.
This causes the "gilli" to flip through the air.
While the "gilli" is airborne, the opposing team's hitter attempts to smack it like one would as if playing cricket.
The one who hits the "gilli" the farthest will wins.
It is played with two teams.
One side pitches the "gilli" using the big "danda" (not the bare hands), to the other team's hitter.
The hitter, using his "danda" then hits the "gilli".
In the course of the play, if the "gilli" is caught, then those players who pitched with the big "danda" to the hitter, are out of the game.
If the gilli falls on the ground the fielder closest to the gilli gets an oppurtunity to make the hitter out.
He has to throw the gilli towards the danda if the danda is been hit by the gilli it means the striker is out if not then the fielder gains 1 point.
When the striker gains 1 point he will get 3 tries to hit the danda if the gilli still does'nt hit the danda the striker is out.
If he is successful,the 1 point which he gained will continue.
At the end who has the maximum points wins the game.
It was most popularly played around 1970 to 1980 throughout India and Pakistan and is played to this day.
Indian culture
Pakistani culture
The Southern United States (also known as The Southern States or "The South" among Americans) is a term for the Southeastern part of the United States.
All Confederate States were in the South, but not all Southern States joined the Confederacy.
The States farthest to the south are called the "Deep South".
Even though Arizona, New Mexico and southern California are  geographically southern parts of United States, they are usually classified as the Southwestern United States and not the South (the climate, culture and ethnic makeup of the Southwest are also different from the South).
Most of the South is a land of long, hot summers.
Winters are mostly short and cool.
There is much rainfall.
This combination gives the South a long growing season.
Important crops include cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and peaches.
Washington, D.C. (although not a state, it is part of the south)
Except for Florida and Texas, most of the South did not have as many immigrants arriving from other countries as the rest of the United States did, in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Most of the people in the South are of English, Scottish, or Irish ancestry, or the descendants of African-American slaves.
Some Southerners identify themselves as being of "American" ancestry.
Census Regions of the United States
A hick is a term for an American stereotype, which is also used in Canada to a lesser degree.
It is a term for people who live in rural areas, especially on farms and ranches and is usually meant as an insult and considered offensive to most people.
It is mostly used to describe people in the south-central United States, including Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska.
A greenhouse gas is a gas which reflects radiation that the Earth emits, and stops it from being lost into space.
This makes the Earth hotter than it would be without greenhouse gases.
This is called the "greenhouse effect".
Most greenhouse gases are natural - water vapor is the most common, and causes most of the greenhouse effect on Earth.
Other greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbon  and ozone.
Without greenhouse gases, life as we know it would probably not be possible on Earth, because heat is important for life.
Natural emissions of greenhouse gases vary.
For example, the great volcanic eruptions that created the Siberian Traps a quarter billion years ago may have released enough gases to partly cause the Permian–Triassic extinction event which killed most life on Earth.
However, humans are adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
This is making the planet's average temperature rise by increasing the greenhouse effect.
The most important greenhouse gas that humans add to the atmosphere is carbon dioxide, which is now about 0.04% of the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide is released when people burn fossil fuels, like oil, coal, and natural gas.
Carbon dioxide emissions come mostly from transportation, energy and industries.
The biggest is burning fossil fuels to make heat and electricity: but if we look at where the electricity is used the biggest is industry.
The Food and Agriculture Organization said emissions associated with livestock added up to 7.1 gigatonnes (GT) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq) per year – or 14.5% of all human-caused greenhouse releases.
This is more than the 13% that comes from global transport (including all cars and planes) each year.
Water vapour is the most abundant of these gases, and it reacts to climate change.
In other words, when the atmosphere is warm, there is more water vapour.
Thus there is a higher possibility of clouds and precipitation.
In addition to burning fossil fuels, human beings reduce the planets absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by cutting down trees.
Methane is also added to the atmosphere by raising cattle and other farm animals, such as geese, turkeys, pigs, chickens, and sheep.
Scientists have shown that producing 1 kg of beef results in more CO2 emissions than going for a three-hour drive while leaving all the lights on at home.
Additionally, human activity adds water vapor to the atmosphere through increased evaporation by the use of cooling towers in thermal cycle power plants or creation of artificial lakes.
These activities contribute to global warming.
The Climate Change Guide easy-to-understand information on the Greenhouse gases
Omaha Hold 'Em is a poker game, similar to Texas Hold 'Em.
In Omaha, each player is given four cards.
Then there is a round of betting.
Then three community cards are placed on the table.
Another round of betting is after that.
Then a fourth community card is put down.
After this, there is another round of betting.
Then there is the final community card put down, there is a last round of betting, and each player uses exactly two cards from the hand and three from the table to form a five-card poker hand.
Whoever has the best hand wins all the money put in the middle during betting.
Omaha Holdem Poker versus Texas Holdem Poker
Habanero Poker
Omaha Poker Strategy
Leverkusen (Low Franconian: Leverkuuse) is a city near Cologne at the river Rhine in Germany.
As of October 2005, about 162,000 people lived there.
Tocotronic is a German indie rock band.
They were founded in 1993 in Hamburg.
German rock bands
Bolesław Prus () (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), real name Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish writer.
He was born in Hrubieszów and died in Warsaw.
As a 15-year-old high-school student, he fought in Poland's January 1863 Uprising.
Prus is best known for his novels, Lalka (The Doll) and the historical novel Faraon (Pharaoh).
He also wrote "Anielka," Placówka (The Outpost), Emancypantki (The New Woman), and many other stories and novels.
He was an advocate of Positivist philosophy and social progressivism.
Prus, Bolesław
1912 deaths
Predicted events
February 6 – Early Macintosh computers cannot recognise dates after this day.
May 2 – Partial solar eclipse
September 8 – Major alignment of the planets
November 4 – Partial solar eclipse
Unknown Dates
2040 Summer Olympics will be held.
If the United States had not returned land for bases on Bermuda in 2002, a ninety-nine year lease (signed in 1941) would have expired.
Climatologists predict that sometime in 2040 the Arctic Ocean will be free of ice, at least during the autumn. (
News reports, December 2006).
Fictional events
The anime series Macross Plus and Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 are both set in this year.
In the universe of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the television becomes obsolete.
A collection of Doctor Who short stories, Short Trips, is also set in that year.
Years in the future
John Wayne Mixson (June 16, 1922 – July 8, 2020) was an American politician.
He was born in New Brockton, Alabama, but was raised in Jackson County, Florida.
He was a democrat.
He served in Florida's House of Representatives.
In 1978 he was elected a lieutenant governor (deputy governor) to governor Bob Graham.
They were reelected in 1982.
Mixson served as lieutenant governor from 1979 to 1987.
During his second term he was also state Secretary of Commerce.
In 1987, Graham resigned from office to become U.S. Senator.
Mixson was sworn in as governor for three days, from January 3 to January 6, when governor-elect Bob Martinez (Rep.) took over.
Lieutenant Governors of Florida
Politicians from Alabama
Neustadt an der Weinstraße is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It has about 54,000 people.
The main parts of the town's economy are tourism and winegrowing.
Every year the town is the location of the German wine harvest festival with the election of the Gerrman wine queen.
Diedesfeld,
Duttweiler,
Geinsheim,
Gimmeldingen,
Haardt,
Hambach,
Königsbach,
Lachen-Speyerdorf,
Mußbach, and
Winzingen.
Culture and sights
Hambach Castle
Saalbau
Elwetritsch fountain
Railway Museum
Villa Böhm
Wolfscastle
, Lincoln
, Mâcon
, Musange
, Manchester, New Hampshire
, Mersin-Yenisehir
, Wernigerode
, Quanzhou
Reubin O'Donovan Askew (September 11, 1928 - March 13, 2014) was an American politician.
He was a democrat from Florida.
He was born in Muskogee (Oklahoma), but since 1937 he lived in Florida.
He served both in US Army and US Air Force.
Askew was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
He studied at Florida State University and at University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Askew married Donna Lou Harper in August 1956.
Prior to becoming governor, Askew served as state representative (1959-1963) and state senator (1963-1970).
For a year (1969-1970) he was president pro tempore of this body.
He was elected governor in the same year and assumed duties in January 1971.
He was one of the first southern governors (alongside Jimmy Carter of Georgia) yo openly support desegregation.
In 1972 then-democratic Presidential nominee, senator George McGovern of South Dakota offered him vice presidency, but Askew declined it.
McGovern lost to Richard Nixon.
Askew was reelected in 1974 and served until early 1979.
After leaving office he was, for two years, United States Trade Representative under President Carter.
Askew had two children; one son and one daughter.
Askew lived in Tallahassee, Florida.
Official Governor's portrait and biography from the State of Florida
Florida DeMolay hall of Fame website
DeMolay hall of Fame website
NYTimes obituary
United States Trade Representatives
Askew, Reubin
Politicians from Oklahoma
The Trabant (or Trabi) was a series of cars built in the German Democratic Republic.
When the first cars were released, people saw them as being innovative.
The cars were also easy on fuel, they did not need much fuel.
Trabant had a two-stroke engine.
The outside of the Trabant was not made with steel or iron, because the German Democratic Republic did not want to import steel and iron for the cars, because that would have been too expensive.
Instead, the Trabant was made of Duroplast, a special kind of plastic, made by mixing formica and bakelite, and made stronger with fibres of cotton.
They could afford some steel from Russia, and this was used for the engine and the floor, and to give the plastic strength.
After the Berlin Wall was opened the Trabant did not sell as much as before, because the people wanted bigger cars that they could get after the wall was opened.
Trabants can still be found in East Europe, for example in Hungary.
The Trabant was a small car, good for driving in the city.
The two-stroke engine created lots of air pollution, but because of the plastic body, it was stronger and safer than western cars of the same time.
It was famous for being better in a crash test than a VW Polo.
Between 1957 and 1990, about 3 million Trabants were built.
As of January 2005, about 67.000 such cars were still registered.
Lindsay Dee Lohan (born July 02, 1986) is an American actress and singer.
She has acted in several movies, including The Parent Trap, Life-Size, Get A Clue, Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Confessions of a Drama Queen, Herbie Fully Loaded, Just My Luck, Georgia Rule and Labor Pains.
Lindsay Lohan was born on July 02, 1986, in The Bronx borough of New York City, and grew up in Merrick and Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island, New York.
She is the eldest child of Dina and Michael Lohan.
Lohan's parents are Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan, both of whom are of Irish and Italian descent.
She has a sister named Ali Lohan.
Lindsay Dee Lohan was born in The Bronx borough of New York City, on July 02,1986, to Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan.
She began her career at age three as a Ford model, and also made appearances in over sixty television commercials, including spots for The Gap, Pizza Hut, Wendy's, and Jell-O (opposite Bill Cosby).
Lohan made her acting debut in 1996 as the third actress to play Ali Fowler in the television drama Another World (1964).
Shortly afterward she was hand-picked by Oscar-nominated writer Nancy Meyers as estranged twin sisters in an adaptation by Walt Disney Pictures of a novel by Erich Kästner, which marked Meyers' directorial debut.
Lohan's first feature film, The Parent Trap (1998), a remake of The Parent Trap (1961), was a modest commercial success, earning her widespread critical acclaim and a Young Artist award for Best Leading Young Actress in a Feature Film, as well as Blockbuster Entertainment and YoungStar award nominations.
After signing a three-movie contract with Disney, she returned to the small screen to star in the made-for-TV movies The Wonderful World of Disney: Life-Size (2000) (opposite Tyra Banks) and Get a Clue (2002) (opposite Bug Hall).
She also appeared as Rose in the pilot episode of the short-lived comedy series Bette (2000), which starred Bette Midler.
In June 2001 Lohan took a brief hiatus from acting.
Her music career was launched over a year later, when Estefan Enterprises made a five-album production deal with her in September 2002, and she signed a recording contract with the reactivated Casablanca Records.
The movies Parent Trap and Mean Girls made Lohan popular in the United States.
They also showed her talent in singing.
She plays the guitar and has done many singing parts.
She first sang in the soundtrack of the movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
In 2004, she released her first album named Speak.
In 2005, her second album, A Little More Personal (RAW) was released.
Now, in recent years she has been working on a new album with Ne-Yo, Snoop Dogg, Timbaland.
This album was released at the end of 2008.
Between 2008 and 2009 Lohan dated Samantha Ronson.
However, Lohan now identifies as heterosexual.
She had a miscarriage in 2013.
|1998
|The Parent Trap
|Hallie Parker / Annie James
|Main role
|2000
|Life-Size
|Casey Stewart
|TV
|Get a Clue
|Lexy Gold
|TV movie by Disney Channel Original Movie
|2003
|Freaky Friday
|Anna Coleman
|rowspan="2"|2004
|Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
| Mary Elizabeth "Lola" Steppe
|Mean Girls
|Cady Heron
|2005
|Herbie: Fully Loaded
|Margaret "Maggie" Peyton
|rowspan="3"|2006
|Just My Luck
|Ashley Albright
|A Prairie Home Companion
|Lola Johnson
|Supporting role
|Bobby
|Diane Huber
|rowspan="1"|2007
|I Know Who Killed Me
| Aubrey Fleming / Dakota Moss
| Main Role
|rowspan="1"|2008
|Dare to Love Me
| La Ritana
| Main role / filming
|Machete
|rowspan="1"|2012
|Liz and Dick
|TV movie
|Scary Movie 5
|Herself
|Credited
|rowspan="1"|[[2013 in movies|2013]]
|The Canyons|Tara
|Supporting Role
Another World - 1996–1997
Bette (2000–2001) - appeared October 11, 2000, in pilot episode only
Punk'd - one episode, December 14, 2003 (see above)
Saturday Night Live - Host, May 1, 2004
2004 MTV Movie Awards - Host, June 10, 2004
That '70s Show - "Mother's Little Helper" episode, November 10, 2004
Saturday Night Live - Cameo for Weekend Update, December 11, 2004
Saturday Night Live - Host, May 21, 2005 (season finale)
Saturday Night Live - Host, April 15, 2006
2006 World Music Awards - Host, November 2006
Ugly Betty- episode Jump Albums
Speak A Little More Personal (RAW)''
Untitled third album
Casablanca (Universal) Records site
Maxim cover shoot pictures and interview
American thieves
Postum is a drink first made by C. W. Post in 1895.
It is a powder substitute for coffee that is mixed with water.
The ingredients are wheat bran, wheat, molasses, and corn dextrin.
Brok nad Bugiem (English: Brok near Bug) is a small town in Mazowsze Voivodship, Poland.
Brok is in Ostrowian County (head town of this region is Ostrów Mazowiecka).
Brok is one of the smallest places in Europe with town status (since 1500).
Area: 28,05 km²
Number of people (as of 2004): 1882
Community: Brok
Post code: 07-306
Current Mayor: Stanisław Bębenek (since 2002)
Brok is regarded by many as one of the most beautiful places in this part of Poland.
This is a tourist town near two rivers: Bug and one also named Brok.
Gothic Church (built 1560)
Old Jewish Cemetery
Location (Puszcza Biała, White Wood)
Many old houses
Ostrowian County (Poland)
March 6 – Treaty of Toledo – Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize African conquests of Afonso of Portugal and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain
Great standing on the Ugra river – Muscovy becomes independent from the Golden Horde and Moscow becomes the capital of Russia.
Ludovico Sforza becomes Regent of Milan (reigns until 1499)
Concorts and co-rulers Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition (looking for heretics in converted Jews)
Leonardo da Vinci invents the parachute
Mohamed II fails in his attempt to capture Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes
Magdalen College School, Oxford starts.
The Inca Empire conquers northwest Argentina.
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the world.
Pier Gerlofs Donia, a huge pirate who fought for the independence of Friesland.
Pir Sultan Abdal, Turkish poet.
Peter Henlein, German inventor who may have first invented the watch.
Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer
Siege of Jerusalem during the First Crusade:
July 8 – 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march around Jerusalem.
January 13 – Crusaders set fire to Mara, Syria.
July 15 – Christian soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse and Tancred take Jerusalem after a difficult siege, killing nearly every inhabitant.
August 12– the crusaders defeat the Fatimids at the Battle of Ascalon.
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician.
He is known for his trumpet playing with his group, Tijuana Brass.
He is also the co-founder and one of the heads of A&M Records.
A teddy bear is a type of toy that looks like a bear.
The teddy bear is normally a cub or baby bear.
In Russia, bears were used as children's toys for many years before they became popular in the United States.
The teddy bear in Russia has been the subject of folklore or stories for many years.
Teddy bears are often toys for children they are also used to comfort people and also to teach.
A teddy bear is a popular and well-known toy.
It may often have human-like features.
They are usually small and soft.
Teddy Bears are found all over the world.
Early 20th century teddy bears were made from mohair, the hair of goats.
Now they are usually made from synthetic fabrics.
There are many stories about how the Teddy Bear got its name.
It may be a myth but the teddy bear is said to be named after Theodore Roosevelt, a hunter who disliked being called "Teddy".
Roosevelt was the 26th and youngest President of the United States.
He was president from 1901–1909.
Friends of the president gave him the nickname "Teddy".
The most told story happened in November 1902.
President Roosevelt was in Mississippi for a bear hunt.
He and other men went out hunting for bear on horseback.
The President and the men had hunting dogs to help find the bears.
The dogs ran off following the scent of the bears.
When the men could no longer hear the dogs, they turned around and went back to their camp, When they got to camp a bear was there.
Everyone at the camp wanted President Roosevelt to shoot the bear.
He would not do it or let anyone else do it.
Teddy Bears for adults
British soldiers in World War I, wore fur coats that they called Teddys.
The American soldiers also wore a one piece fur overall they called a teddy.
Women's nightgowns have also been nicknamed "Teddy" because they are comfortable.
The teddy bear has been a mascot and a companion for many adults.
Olympic Long Jump Gold Medal winner Randy Wililams 1972 pictured on Life magazine with a teddy bear at the Munich games.
The bear was giving to him by an ex-girlfriend.
While playing baseball with the San Francisco Giants, Ron Bryant was nicknamed "Bear" for always taking his teddy bear everywhere with him.
After playing for the Giants, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs.
While he was playing with the Cubs, Bryant bought a bear from a girl on the street.
He took the bear to the game and they won that day.
After that, he brought the bear with him to all the games.
The teddy bear was even fitted with a baseball uniform with Bryant's number.
"Cherished Teddies"
Adults often collect "Cherished Teddies".
They are figurines of teddy bears.
They are considered knick knacks.
Only a limited number from each mold is produced.
Some are more rare, or uncommon than others.
The less made of a particular one, the more valuable they are.
TY Beanie Babies
Beanie Baby bears are of the most popular in Beanie Baby collections. "
Princess Diana" bear honors the late Princess of Wales.
Her bear is of royal purple color with two flowers on its heart.
Accessories for the bear such as a copy of Princess Di's actual license, a crown, and royal cape can be purchased to enhance the royal bear.
Some bears that were defective in production are considered to have the highest worth, since limited amounts were effected.
Collectors search for the defective ones to have the most rare collection.
Just as with "Cherished Teddies" the less available ones are worth the most amount of money.
The TY tags on the ears of the bears condition also attributes to their value.
Children have a tendency to rip off these tags making the collectibles an everyday toy.
Healing, helping and learning
Bears in the classroom
The teddy bear is used in children's classrooms.
According to "The Much Maligned Teddy Bear", teddy bears comfort and support children.
The teddy bear is also used to teach children about different places.
In story, the bear does traveling and sends postcards to the readers, which helps children learn.
A child can learn a lot through teddy bears.
There are books, logos that teach and comfort children.
The teddy bear books help children learn to read and are also fond memories for parents and grandparents.
Teddy Bear Cop
Law enforcement in America gives children in traumatic experiences teddy bears for comfort.
Several agencies provide the bears to children going through crisis.
The bears are donated by citizens to help children deal with transitioning from their homes to foster care or when a parent is arrested for breaking the law and is taken to jail.
Firemen also hand out bears to children victims of fire.
Emotional support
Bear Teddy is a popular toy not only among children but also among adults.
Someone keeps their old plush friends, someone buys new ones.
Psychologists explain such love for these toys at all ages by the fact that a person receives emotional support from those they trust.
Recently, bear therapy has become widespread in the field of psychological care for patients.
It was made by Sejong the Great, the 4th King of the Joseon Dynasty in 1443.
It is still being used now.
When Hangeul was spreading, King Sejong published Hunminjeong'eum Haeryebon (훈민정음 해례본).
It was picked as the 'Memory of the World' by UNESCO in 1997.
In this book, the design ideas of Hangeul and information about its use were written down in detail.
The book Hunminjeong'eum Haeryebon states the two design ideas of Hangeul.
The first one is that the consonants of Hangeul look like vocal organs.
The second one is that the vowels of Hangeul are based on Cheonji'in (천지인).
Cheonji'in refers to the three elements of philosophy which are sky (천), earth (지) and human (인).
Because of these ideas, Hangeul is well known for being easy to learn.
Although it was only used by the lower classes at first, Hangeul became the official writing script of Korea in the late 19th century.
Today it is the most used writing system of both North Korea and South Korea.
North Korea abolished the use of Hanja, and today North Koreans write only in Hangeul.
In South Korea, people write mostly in Hangeul, but sometimes Hanja is still used.
10 simple ones,  ㅏㅓㅣㅑㅕ  and  ㅗㅜㅡㅛㅠ.
11 more complicated combinations:  ㅐㅒㅔㅖ and ㅘㅙㅚㅝㅞㅟㅢ.
| ㅏ || ㅓ || ㅣ || ㅑ || width="40" | ㅕ || ㅗ || ㅜ || ㅡ
| ㅛ || width="40" | ㅠ || ㅐ || ㅒ
| ㅔ || width="40" | ㅖ || ㅘ || ㅙ || ㅚ || ㅝ
| ㅞ || ㅟ
ㅢ
| a || eo || i || ya || yeo || o || u || eu
| yo || yu || ae || yae || e || ye || wa || wae || oe || wo
| we || wi
Consonants are letters like B, G, L, M, N, S and so on.
There are 14 simple consonants: ㄱㄴㄷㄹㅁㅂㅅㅇㅈㅊㅋㅌㅍㅎThey can be written two next to each other.
The consonants and vowels are combined into blocks of syllables.
A syllable means one vowel and a few consonants, like "han" and "geul".
1443 establishments
15th-century establishments in Asia
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is an American politician.
He was the Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015.
Before becoming governor, he was a junior U.S. Senator of Rhode Island from 1999 to 2007.
In 2016, he made a brief and unsuccessful bid for President of the United States in the 2016 Democratic primaries.
In January 2020, Chafee announced he would run again, but this time for the Libertarian nomination.
He ended his second campaign in April 2020.
Chafee was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
His father, John Chafee, was also a Senator from Rhode Island and member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party.
His mother was Virginia Coates.
Chafee was raised in Warwick, Rhode Island.
He studied at Brown University and at Montana State University.
Chafee entered politics in 1985 as a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention.
A year later, he was elected to the Warwick City Council, where he served until his election as Warwick's mayor in 1992, a post he held until his 1999 appointment to the U.S. Senate.
U.S. senator (1999-2007)
After his father died in office, Chafee was appointed to fill his vacancy.
He was elected to his first full term in 2000.
He was a very liberal Republican senator.
He is strongly pro-choice and supports gay rights and gun control.
He was the only Republican senator in 2002 to voted against war in Iraq.
He was the only Republican United States senator to vote against authorizing the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
In 2004, he did not endorse the reelection of President George W. Bush, and urged other Republicans to write-in in the November election George H. W. Bush, not his son.
In January 2006, he was also the only Republican senator to vote against Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court.
Governor of Rhode Island (2011-2015)
Chafee was elected as Governor of Rhode Island in 2010.
He was sworn in on January 4, 2011.
He became the first Independent to serve as Governor of Rhode Island since John Collins in 1790.
In 2012, he served as co-chair of Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
Since then, he was a Democrat.
On April 9, 2015, Chafee announced that he had formed an exploratory committee in preparation for a potential candidacy for President of the United States as a Democrat in 2016.
He formally declared his candidacy on June 3, 2015.
2020 presidential campaign
On January 5, 2020, Chaffee formally filed to run for the Libertarian nomination.
He is scheduled to make a formal campaign announcement on January 8 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He ended his campaign on April 5, 2020 after failing to win any of the primary contests.
Chafee married Stephanie Chafee in January 1990.
He now lives in Teton Village, Wyoming.
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Sascha Fischer (born 24 December 1970 in Stuttgart) is a German rugby player.
He started with volleyball, then he began to play rugby for DSV 1878 Hannover (Lower Saxony).
Right now he is playing in France as a pro for C.A. Périgueux-Dordogne.
With his former team, C.S. Bourgoin-Jallieu, he took part at Heineken Cup.
He is 6 feet, 8 inches tall (2.08 meters) and one of the tallest rugby players in Europe.
He is a 27 time national player for Germany.
He is a very aggressive player and with his height, he can overlook the whole rugby field.
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Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham (born November 9, 1936) is a retired American politician.
He was a well known member of the Democratic Party.
Graham has never lost an election.
His career started with being a state legislator (Representative 1966-1969, and Senator 1971-1979).
In 1978 he was elected Governor of Florida.
His Lt.
Governor was Wayne Mixson.
Graham was reelected in 1982, when he won 65% over a Republican candidate, Skip Bafalis.
He was a popular Governor.
He did much to protect the environment.
He also oversaw restart of state executions (as first time since 1964), when 16 people were electrocuted.
The first of them, John Spenkelink, was the first to die in the electric chair since 1966 in the United States.
He was the second to be executed since 1967 (after Gary Gilmore in Utah in January 1977).
Graham was elected to the United States Senate in 1986, defeating sitting Senator Paula Hawkins.
He served as Senator from 1985 to 2005, when he retired.
He resigned from governorship on January 3, 1985, three days before the swearing-in of the governor-elect, Republican Robert Martinez.
For this time Mixson assumed his duties, making him the shortest serving governor in Florida history.
Attempted careers
In early 2003 he decided to run for President but, after poor results in an opinion polls, he resigned and later supported John Kerry, who won the Democratic nomination.
He was regarded as possible Kerry Vice Presidential candidate, but Kerry chose John Edwards.
He was born in Dade County (now Miami-Dade County)
He married Adele Khoury in 1959
United States senators from Florida
Also, there are other groups that did not immigrate to the United States but became American because of American expansion in the late 19th century.
In addition to the United States, Americans and people of American descent can be found around the world.
Three to seven million Americans are estimated to be living outside the United States.
Most Americans are of European descent.
The number of Latin Americans and Asians is more than ever.
About 13% of Americans are of African descent.
People from many cultures, religions, and ethnic groups live in the U.S. This is why the United States is called the "Melting Pot".
The United States is a diverse country.
Six races are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes: White, Black or African American, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander.
Ohio Wesleyan University is a private university in Delaware, Ohio and a member of the Five Colleges of Ohio.
Wesleyan was founded in September 1844.
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Lakshmi is the goddess of money, wisdom and good luck in Hinduism.
Most Hindus pray to her on Diwali, which is a festival in India.
She is regarded as an equivalent goddess of Emoinu, her Meitei counterpart.
Lakshmi has four arms, fair skin and sits on a lotus flower and is normally surrounded by elephants.
She is covered in jewellery.
She also has several avatars (means a god coming to the earth in the form of a human being or in any other form).
Her husband is the Hindu god Vishnu but her other avatars are usually married to Vishnu's avatars:
Sita, wife of Rama
Radha, the lover, and Rukmini, the first wife and queen of Krishna
Hindu Goddess
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108 Aspects of Wealth
The Online mandir of Mahalakshmi
Know about Goddess Sri Lakshmi
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Aboriginal artefacts on Rottnest Island have been dated from 6,500 to more than 30,000 years ago.
However, more recent evidence suggests human occupation by or even before 50,000 years ago.
During the Pleistocene period, seas were much lower than they are today.
This would have made migration from Asia to Australia much easier than it is now.
However several long sea crossings would still have had to be made.
These crossings would have included distances of 90100 km of open sea.
It is not known what kind of boat would have been used for these crossings, but they were probably a raft made from bamboo.
These first Australians were the world's first ocean travellers.
The land bridge between Australia and New Guinea was blocked by rising sea levels about 8,000 years ago.
The people of Australia and New Guinea are closely related by DNA.
DNA evidence shows that the Australian Aborigines belong to the modern humans who left Africa between 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Research shows that the Australian Aborigines were part of a group that left Africa 24,000 years before the groups that settled in Europe and Asia.
This makes them one of the oldest indigenous peoples outside Africa.
The DNA also shows that most migration to Australia stopped about 50,000 years ago, and the people here developed in isolation to the rest of the world.
Whilst there there is an absence of empirical evidence that demonstrates a continuity of culture as opposed to a continuity of presence, the Australian Aboriginal population is likely one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world.
Many Aboriginal stories from northern Australia say that the people came to Australia from across the sea.
It is not known what the first Australians looked like.
The oldest place where humans lived in Australia dates to 55,000 years ago, the Malakunanja II rock shelter in the Northern Territory.
The earliest human remains in Australia, found at Lake Mungo in New South Wales, are 15,000 years younger.
The bones of people born from 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, show they were more robust, and were more physically varied than later people.
Several important archaeological sites reveal information about the life of these people.
These sites include Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp, Coobool Creek, Talgai, and Keilor.
The first Australians had dark skin and black hair.
Most of them were hunter-gatherers, hunting animals and collecting plants to eat.
They were nomadic people moving from place to place in search of seasonal foods.
They developed into different ethnic groups and each group had its own language and traditions.
In 1788 it is estimated that there were about 500 separate language groups in Australia.
Each of these language groups was made up of many smaller groupings.
These smaller groups often combined for ceremonial and trade activities.
Because they were all different, it is difficult to make general claims about Aboriginal traditions and beliefs.
Fire, megafauna and sea levels
Archaeologists have found that fires increased with the arrival of people.
Hunter-gatherers use fire as a tool to drive game, to produce new growth to attract animals, and to clear scrub.
Dense forests became more open forest, and open forest became grassland.
Species that could survive fire began to take over: in particular, eucalyptus, acacia, and grasses.
The changes to the fauna were even more dramatic.
Megafauna, species much larger than humans, disappeared, as well as many of the smaller species.
About 60 different vertebrates became extinct, including the Diprotodon family (very large marsupials that looked rather like hippos), several large flightless birds, meat eating kangaroos, a five-metre lizard and Meiolania, a tortoise the size of a small car.
The direct cause of the mass extinctions of the megafauna is uncertain.
It may have been fire, hunting, climate change, or a combination of all.
Without large herbivores to eat the vegetation, the extra fuel made fires burn hotter, further changing the landscape.
In the period from 18,000 to 15,000 years ago, Australia became dryer, with lower temperatures and less rainfall.
Between 16,000 and 14,000 years ago the sea levels rose quickly.
One scientist has estimated sea levels rose 50 feet in 300 years.
At the end of the Pleistocene, about 13,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut the land access across the Torres Strait to New Guinea, the Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania, and to Kangaroo Island.
The Tasmanian Aborigines were cut off from the rest of Australia.
By 9,000 years ago there were no longer people living on the small islands in Bass Strait or Kangaroo Island.
Studies of language and genes shows that there has been long-term contact between Australians in the far north and the people of modern-day New Guinea and the islands.
This seems to have been mainly trade with a little intermarriage.
Macassan praus are also recorded in the Aboriginal stories from Broome to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
There were some semi-permanent settlements established, and cases of Aboriginal settlers finding a home in Indonesia.
The Aboriginal people did not develop writing but they painted pictures on rocks and bark.
They also scratched or carved designs into rocks.
They used paint that they made from crushed rocks and water in colours like brown, red, orange, and yellow.
Many ancient cave paintings have been all over Australia.
As the paints made form crushed rock and clay are not organic, it is not possible to use carbon dating to date these pictures.
Some paintings have been found showing megafauna that became extinct over 40,000 years ago.
These paintings may be the oldest known paintings in the world.
Another site in Arnhem Land has charcoal drawings that have been radiocarbon-dated at 28,000 years old.
Aboriginal people had a strong spirituality.
They believed that everything had come from the Dreamtime and that the earth was sacred.
They believed that ancestor spirits such as the Rainbow Serpent had made the world and everything in it.
The laws and customs of the Dreamtime are passed on from parents to children.
They have complex ritual songs and dances which are performed at corroborees.
Indigenous Australian history
In Australian Aboriginal culture, life is based on a foundation of beliefs which are called the Dreamtime, or The Dreaming.
This is a complex set of ideas with deep levels of meanings.
The Dreamtime has four parts: The beginning of everything; the life and power of the ancestors; the way of life and death; and power in life.
Dreamtime was all four of these things at the same time because it is more powerful than time and space.
In it all things exist at once.
The Aboriginal peoples call Dreamtime the all-at-once time because they think it is the past, present, and future at the same time.
It is a beginning that has no end.
They meet The Dreamtime by doing special dances and singing special songs.
Aboriginals believe that people have a part of them that will live forever.
This part existed before a person was born and will exist after they die.
It exists in The Dreamtime.
All Australian Aboriginals believe in the Dreamtime.
Each group and each person has their own stories and traditions.
In Central Australia, the Pitjantjatjara call it the Tjukurpa.
The Tjukurpa provides the answers for questions about life.
It also gives the rules for behaviour and how to live together.
It explains the complex relationship between the people, animals, plants and the land.
It teaches the how and why the land is to be looked after.
It provided the information about what could be eaten, the rules of marriage, of growing up and the rituals of death.
Some parts of the Dreamtime are only known to those who have inherited the right to the knowledge.
Dreamtime is often used to describe the time before time, or the time of the creation.
Most Aboriginals believe that all life is connected to the great spirit ancestors of the Dreamtime.
Every hill, water hole, river, the sky, every feature was created in the Dreamtime.
The journeys of the ancestors across the country created the landscape, and populated it with plants and animals.
These journeys are often told in cycles of stories, songs and dances, known as iwara, or songlines.
These great spirit ancestors have not gone, they are still present, even if they can not be seen.
The ceremonies of songs and dance keep the people in contact with the spirits. "
Without ceremony the land soon dies..."
Australian mythology
Indigenous Australian culture
The Loch Ness Monster, also referred to as Nessie, is a supposed animal, said to live in the Scottish loch of Loch Ness, the second biggest loch in the country.
The Loch Ness Monster story was big in the field of cryptozoology.
Most scientists believe that the Loch Ness Monster is not real, and they say that many of the seeings are either hoaxes or pictures of other mistaken existing animals.
However, a popular theory among believers is that "Nessie" is a plesiosaur, an extinct meat-eating aquatic reptile that lived in the Mesozoic era.
The Loch Ness monster has also been described as an elephant, eel, and other animals.
Surgeon's photograph' (1934)
The Surgeon's photograph was the only photographic evidence of a head and neck – all the others are humps or disturbances.
Dr. Wilson claimed he was looking at the loch when he saw the monster, so grabbed his camera and snapped five photos.
After the film was developed, only two exposures were clear.
The first photo (the more publicised one) shows what was claimed to be a small head and back.
The second one, a blurry image, attracted little publicity because it was difficult to interpret what was depicted.
Supposedly taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson, a London gynaecologist, it was published in the Daily Mail on 21 April 1934.
Wilson's refusal to have his name associated with the photograph led to it being called "Surgeon's photograph".