the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Even though nobody knows who exactly Valentine was and where he came from, it has been confirmed that he existed because archaeologists discovered a church dedicated to Valentine.
There are many guesses about how Valentine's Day, a celebration of love, started.
One legend says that Valentine, being a priest, performed secret wedding ceremonies when they were outlawed by Emperor Claudius II.
When someone discovered that Valentine was breaking the law, he was ordered to be executed.
Another theory is that Valentine helped captive Christians to break out of prison.
When he himself was in prison, Valentine may have sent the first love letter to a young girl who liked to visit him.
3rd-century deaths
Seligenstadt is a town in the Offenbach Rural District in the state of Hesse, Germany.
The town is by the river Main.
Seligenstadt is in the Rhine Main area.
The town is about 30 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The whole area of the town is 30,85 km2 large and it is 109–118 m above sea level.
The city consists out of the town Seligenstadt and the 2 former independent villages Froschhausen and Klein-Welzheim, both now urban districts of Seligenstadt.
On 1 January 1977 they were united.
Hainburg (North)
Karlstein (East) (Aschaffenburg Rural District)
Mainhausen (Southeast)
Babenhausen (South)
Rodgau (West)
Seligenstadt has 20,221 inhabitants (2008).
Today the dialect speakers are a minority and the majority of them do not speak the real dialect.
Around the year 100 the Romans had fights with the germanic peoples.
They built a small castle and some houses in the place.
Later people came here to build a village named Ober-Mulinheim, later changed to Obermühlheim.
The name parts Mulin- and Mühl- are meaning mill.
In 815 the name Obermühlheim was written down in a document for the first time.
Around 830 the owner of the town started to build a great church, the Einhard-Basilika, and a monastery.
In this time also the name was changed from Obermühlheim to Seligenstadt, because people brought some holy bones to the town.
The name Seligenstadt means place of happiness.
There is a story about the name.
The emperor Charlemagne had lost his daughter and he found her in the village Mulinheim.
Therefore, the name of the place was changed into Seligenstadt.
In former times the people in the Seligenstadt area were mostly farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen.
In the time period of the industrial revolution the Rhine Main area got many factories and developed to a center for metal working and leather manufacturing, also chemical engineering.
This made living conditions partly better.
Triel-sur-Seine, France
Brookfield, USA
Official website of Seligenstadt, looked up on 21 January 2010, German.
, looked up on 21 January 2010, German.
This entry is not about King Ahaziah of Judah.
Ahaziah or Ochozias (אחזיהו המלך) (Israel, ca.
870 BC – ca.
850 BC) was king of Israel and the son of Ahab and Jezebel.
In the Bible, it says that he is very bad, and that he walked in the ways of his evil father King Ahab.
Ahaziah's Reign
Ahaziah son of Ahab was king of Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years.
He "did evil in the eyes of the LORD, because he walked in the ways of his father and mother and in the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.
He served and worshiped Baal and provoked the LORD, the God of Israel to anger, just as his father had done" (1 Kings 22:51 - 53).
Elijah and Ahaziah's death
After Ahab's death, Moab rebelled from Israel, and Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself.
So he sent messengers, saying to them, "Go and consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, to see if I will recover from this injury."
But God was angry at this, because Ahaziah did not consult him, but only a god of Ekron, so on the way, Elijah went and met the servants, and told them (2 Kings 1:6) as the Lord had instructed him, "Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, 'This is what the Lord says:Is it because there was no God in Israel that you are sending men to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?
King Ahaziah recognized him at once, and sent a captain with fifty men to call Elijah.
Now Elijah was sitting on a hill, and the captain called out, "Man of God, the king says, 'Come down!'"
but Elijah replied, "If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!"
he did like this the second time, too.
And, according to the Bible, Ahaziah fulfilled the prophecy by dying.
Because Ahaziah had no son, Joram became king.
Bio at AboutBibleProphecy.com
Bio at AllAboutGod.com
Teignmouth (, ) is a town in Devon, South West England.
It is built on the north bank of the mouth of the River Teign.
In 1690, it was the last place in England to be invaded by a foreign power.
The town was once a fishing port.
Fishermen used to fish for cod in Newfoundland.
In the Georgian period, it became a popular place to stay.
The town grew more with the opening of the South Devon Railway in 1846.
Today, its port is still working and the town remains a popular seaside holiday location.
Perros-Guirec, France
Not to be confused with Public utility
In economics, utility is the amount of satisfaction you get from consuming (using) goods and products.
Changes in utility are called utils, even though there is not really a standard scale for them.
For example, a cup of hot chocolate can have 100 utils, and a cup of orange juice 80 utils.
One of the most well-known uses of utility, especially in economics, is the utility of money.
Nescafé is a brand of instant coffee made by Nestlé.
Instant coffee is a powder which is mixed with hot water to make coffee.
There are several different products that have the name Nescafé.
The name is a mix of the words "Nestlé" and "café".
Nestlé's instant coffee product was introduced in Switzerland on April 1, 1938 after being developed for seven years by Max Morgenthaler and Vernon Chapman.
Oxfam Internationa is a group of 14 organisations working with over 3,000 partners in around 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
It brings these problems to public attention, sets programs to make changes, and provides help in major disasters, also promotes sustainable development and fair trade.
It works directly with communities and seeks to influence the powerful to ensure that poor people can improve their lives with having a say in decisions that affect them.
The principal belief is that people should have a respect for human rights and that will help alleviate poverty.
Oxfam began in Oxford in 1942 as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief.
It was started by a group of Quakers (which included Marcus Tite), social activists, and Oxford academics.
This is now Oxfam Great Britain, still based in Oxford, UK.
It was one of several local committees formed to support the National Famine Relief Committee.
Their job was to get the British government to allow food through the Allied blockade for the starving people of Axis occupied Greece.
The first overseas Oxfam began in Canada in 1963.
The committee changed its name to its telegraph address, OXFAM, in 1965.
Mushroom Records is an Australian record company started by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972.
After its sale in 1998, it joined with Festival Records (Australia) and became Festival Mushroom Records.
In 2006 it became one of the record labels owned by Warner Bros. Records.
It is currently internationally known as WEA International Inc.
"Undisclosed Desires"
"United States of Eurasia"
"Guiding Light"
"Unnatural Selection"
"MK Ultra"
"I Belong to You / Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix"
"Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)"
"Exogenesis: Symphony Part II (Cross Pollination)"
"Exogenenis: Symphony Part III (Redemption)"
Muse albums
Jinan (Chinese: 济南/濟南) is a city in eastern China and the capital of China's Shandong province.
Jinan's most famous attraction is the Baotu Spring.
Li Qingzhao(李清照, 1084 - 1151 A.D) was born in Jinan and is a famous poet in China.
Wakayama, Japan
Coventry, United Kingdom
Yamaguchi, Japan
Suwon, South Korea
Cao Xueqin (, 1724 or 1715 — 1763 or 1764), was a Chinese writer during the Qing Dynasty.
The most famous work by Cao Xueqin is the Dream of the Red Chamber, which is thought to be a great novel in Chinese literature.
There are very little details known about his life.
He came from a rich family that had lost its money in 1728 after the death of the Kangxi Emperor.
He lived in the country west of Peking where he worked as a teacher and sold his paintings.
He spent ten years writing the book, but a large part of the end of the book was written by a different writer after he died.
18th-century births
1760s deaths
Tianjin (Chinese: 天津), is a city in Northern China.
It has a population of 11,760,000.
It has an area of 11,917.3 square kilometers.
Built in 1403, Tianjin has been named by Yongle Emperor in memory of his success in occupying Ming capital Beijing through the harbor of Tianjin.
It locates on the banks of the Hai River, west of Bohai Sea, south of Yanshan Mountains, east of Beijing.
The distance between Tianjin and Beijing is 137 kilometers and it’ll take you only half an hour to go from Tianjin to Beijing by the Beijing–Tianjin Intercity Railway.
Tianjin is the birthplace of China’s modern mechanical industry and textile industry.
Since the beginning of the Open Door Policy, Tianjin has been built more than a dozen industrial zones, creating a lot Chinese famous brand like Flying Pigeon bicycles, Seagull brand watches.
Now Tianjin gradually forms 6 industries of electronic information, automobile, metallurgical, chemical, biotechnology and modern medicine, new energy and environmental protection.
Among Fortune 500 companies, more than 106 have invested in Tianjin.
From 1994 to 2008, Tianjin's GDP rate increased 12.5% on average, entered the ranks of China's rapid development area.
Tianjin is the birthplace of the first university in China.
In 1895, some officials established the first modern university in China – Peiyang University, the predecessor of Tianjin University.
Nankai University in Tianjin is a famous university in China.
The first Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai graduates from Nankai University.
Tianjin has 37 universities and has nearly 20 million students.
Tianjin is one of the first nine-year compulsory education regions.
The quality of workers is high.
Tianjin has nearly one thousand scientific and technological research institutions, together with more than 600 thousand professionals in different fields.
It has a large number of famous experts and scholars.
Tianjin is not far away from sea, so a lot of Tianjin cuisine is seafood.
One of the most famous cuisine in Tianjin is The Four Great Stews, which refers actually to a very large number of stews, including chicken, duck, seafood, beef, and mutton.
Tianjin also has several famous snack items.
Goubuli is a traditional brand of Baozi (steamed buns with filling) that is famous throughout China.
Guifaxiang is a traditional brand of mahua(twisted dough sticks).
Erduoyan is a traditional brand of fried rice cakes.
Shenzhen () is a city in Guangdong province, China.
It is just north of Hong Kong.
It has a subtropical climate.
Until recently, Shenzhen was a fishing village with just over 30,000 people.
In 1980, under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, Shenzhen became one of China's Special Economic Zones (SEZ).
It was in this city where China first experimented with capitalism.
Since then, its population has grown to about 10.6 million people.
Shenzhen is a progressive city.
It has a strong economic connection with Hong Kong.
It is also one of the main trading centers of the Pearl River Delta.
The manufacturing company Gionee is located in the city.
For the movie, see Pirates of the Caribbean.
Piracy in the Caribbean was the terror of the Caribbean Sea, especially to the Spanish navy that controlled those seas.
The English had defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, which stopped the Spanish control of the oceans.
However, the Spanish still controlled the Caribbean.
In the 1770s, the English used pirates to help their government.
By doing harm to the Spanish navy and export, the English hoped to get more land in the New World and stop the Spanish from controlling the New World trade.
They did get what they wanted, but made a new problem.
Sir Henry Morgan was one well-known pirate who was encouraged by the English government.
He worked for the government, but he kept the money.
As time went on, though, Morgan stopped working for the government and began working to get money only for himself.
He and other pirates soon began attacking any trading ship, even if it was an English ship.
Morgan and his helpers called themselves the Brethren.
They wore rough shirts, knee-long pants, felt hats, and leather belts.
On their belts, they hung gunpowder , butcher's knives, and blunderbusses (short muskets.)
They had a "pirate code" which said each man had the right to vote on all things, like choosing a captain or the next ship to attack.
The Spanish Amaro Pargo also stands out, who frequently traded in the Caribbean while looting ships of the enemy powers of the Spanish Crown that he encountered on the way.
Amaro Pargo lived for ten years in the Caribbean, specifically on the island of Cuba where he had descendants.
Reasons for piracy
The pirates easily found new members.
Seamen in naval services often lived much harder lives than pirates.
They could be punished cruelly by people higher than them, did not have good food to eat, and were paid only a little money.
The pirates offered equality, good food (when it was there), and a chance to become rich.
Pirate life
However, pirates were little better.
The commanders of trading ships were terrified at seeing pirate ships, because pirates had little mercy on the people they captured.
They shot them, beat them to death, tortured them, or  them on desert islands.
Pirates were not very kind to each other, either.
Even though they had a "pirate law", they argued with each other, and members could receive the same punishment as their enemies.
Life on a pirate ship was very hard.
There was never a dry place to sleep; bathing was very rare; food was often bad; and danger was expected.
Many pirates had missing arms or legs after bloody sea battles.
Even pirates who finally became rich still risked being hanged if they were caught.
2004 vs. 2007 global piracy summary, The Economist, published 23 Apr 2008, accessed 2008-04-28.
The Golden Age of Piracy, and its origins in class struggle - on peopleshistory.co.uk
Pirates of the Caribbean, In Fact and Fiction- from BlindKat Publishers
Method of Securing the Ports and Populations of All the Coasts of the Indies
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Zhejiang is a province in east China. "
Zhejiang" is named by the Qiantang River, which is also called "Zhejiang". "
Zhejiang" means "bent river".
It has a population of more than 64 million people.
The capital of Zhejiang Province is Hangzhou.
Hangzhou Municipality
Ningbo Municipality
Huzhou Municipality
Jiaxing Municipality
Jinhua Municipality
Lishui Municipality
Quzhou Municipality
Shaoxing Municipality
Taizhou Municipality
Wenzhou Municipality
Zhoushan Municipality
Shaoxing () is a city and a municipality in China.
It is in the Zhejiang province.
4,347,200 people live there.
The area of Shaoxing Municipality is 8,256 square kilometres.
Lu Xun () born in Shaoxing is a famous writer in China.
Yuecheng District ()
Shangyu City ()
Shengzhou City ()
Zhuji City ()
Shaoxing County ()
Xinchang County ()
Sandakan, Malaysia
Lu Xun (), (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936), was a Chinese writer.
His real name is Zhou Shuren (周树人), as Lu Xun is his pen name.
He was born in Shaoxing of Zhejiang Province.
He had a lot of works, for example, "The True Story of Ah Q", " Medicine", and so on.
The U.S. Open is a golf tournament, which is one of the four major championships played annually.
It is organized by the United States Golf Association.
The torunament takes place annually on the third weekend in June, and the host course changes every year.
Past winners
Black Holes and Revelations is the fourth album from the British alternative rock band, Muse.
Map of the Problematique
Soldier's Poem
Exo-Politics
City of Delusion
The United National Independence Party (UNIP) is a political party in Zambia.
It governed the country from 1964 to 1991.
This was under President Kenneth Kaunda.
It was the only party allowed to exist in Zambia between 1973 and 1991.
The party was founded in October 1959 after the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC) was banned.
It was first led by Mainza Chona, because Kaunda, who was leader of the ZANC, had been imprisoned.
Kaunda became the party's leader when he was released in January 1960.
Unió Esportiva Sant Andreu (UE Sant Andreu) is a Spanish football team formed in 1909 and based in the district of Sant Andreu, in the city of Barcelona.
They will play the 2008-09 season in the Segunda División B - Group 3.
Catalan Second Division: 1919-20, 1920-21, 1939-40
Segunda División: 1991-92
Tercera División: 1949-50, 1957-58, 1968-69, 1984-85, 1989-90
Catalan Historical Teams Tournament: 2007
Copa Catalunya: 2008-09
The Cerapods are a sub-order of the Ornithischia.
They are all herbivorous dinosaurs.
They have thicker enamel on the inside of their lower teeth.
The teeth wear unevenly, and this allows them to browse on tough vegetation.
Ornithopoda: including the duck-billed dinosaurs.
Pachycephalosauria: the thick-headed dinosaurs.
Ceratopsia: the horned dinasaurs.
The Ceratopsia are the horned dinosaurs of the order Ornithischia.
Triceratops is the best-known, and one of the largest.
They are a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs which thrived in what is now North America and Asia, during the Cretaceous period.
Ancestral forms of this group lived earlier, in the Jurassic.
Early members, such as Psittacosaurus, were small and bipedal.
Later members, including Centrosaurus and Triceratops, became very large quadrupeds.
They developed elaborate facial horns and a neck frill.
The frill served mainly to protect the vulnerable neck from bipedal predators like Tyrannosaurus, who attacked from above.
Triceratops is by far the best-known ceratopsian to the general public.
The Pachycephalosaurs are a group of ornithopod dinosaurs in the suborder Cerapoda.
Their thick round skulls were used for defence and, probably, for mating contests.
In some species, the skull roof is domed and several inches thick; in others it is flat or wedge-shaped.
The flat-headed pachycephalosaurs are usually regarded as distinct species or even families, but they may be juveniles of dome-headed adults.
The domes were often surrounded by nodes and/or spikes.
There is evidence of head-butting in pachycephalosaurs.
Of 100 domes studied, 20 percent showed signs of healed injuries, all consistent with combative behavior.
The pathologies included pitting where the bone had become infected from wounds that originated in the skin.
These findings suggest that pachycephalosaurids may have been using their heads for both display and defence as many modern animals do.
Family Pachycephalosauridae
Gravitholus
Tribe Pachycephalosaurini
Pachydephalosaurus
Obertshausen is in the Rhine Main area.
The town is about 15 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The whole area of the town is 13.62 km2 large and it is 113 m above sea level.
The city consists out of the two former independent villages Obertshausen and Hausen, which are now the two urban districts of Obertshausen.
Offenbach (Northwest)
Mühlheim (North)
Hanau (Northeast) (Main-Kinzig-Kreis Rural District)
Hainburg (East)
Rodgau (Southeast)
Heusenstamm (Southwest)
Obertshausen has 24,141 inhabitants (2008).
In the year 865 the name of the village Obertshausen was written down in a document for the first time.
It was a kind of farm of the monastery of Seligenstadt to produce food for the monks.
In former times the people in the Obertshausen area were mostly farmers, craftsmen, but not tradesmen.
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France
Laakirchen, Austria
Meiningen, Germany
Ankylosaurs were herbivorous armoured dinosaurs in the order Ornithischia.
Their armour was made of scutes (bony scales).
They were quadrupeds with short and strong legs.
Fossils of Ankylosaurs have been found on every continent.
They were of two types:
Ankylosauridae: armoured from their head to their club-ended tail.
Nodosauridae: no tail club but spikes and bony bumps on body.
They first appeared in the Middle Jurassic, and lived until the end of the Cretaceous period.
When adult, they were large: Edmontonia was bulky, broad and tank-like.
Its length when adult has been estimated at about 6.6 m (22 ft).
Both main Edmontonia species, E. longiceps and E. rugosidens weighed about three tonnes.
Diet and feeding
Ankylosaurs were low to the ground.
The large hyoid bones left in skeletons shows they had long, flexible tongues.
They also had a large, side secondary palate.
This means that they could breathe while chewing.
Their huge gut suggests they fermented their food, using symbiotic bacteria and gut flora.
Their diet was mainly ferns and cycads, which were hugely widespread, especially in the Lower Jurassic.
The tropical climate supported plant growth, as it does today.
Ankylosaurs fed on vegetation at or below the height of a meter.
The Stegosaurs were a group of dinosaurs in the suborder Thyreophora.
They have small heads, peg-like teeth and vertical bony plates and spines on their back and tail.
They flourished from the Upper Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous.
The Stegosauria was originally named as an order by O.C. Marsh in 1877.
Now it is treated as an infraorder or suborder (or simply a clade) within Thyreophora, the armoured dinosaurs.
It includes the families Huayangosauridae and Stegosauridae.
The Huayangosauridae were an early family of stegosaurs which lived during the Middle Jurassic.
They were smaller than later stegosaurs and had shorter and higher skulls.
Currently, the only confirmed genus included is the type genus Huayangosaurus of China.
The poorly-known remains of Regnosaurus from England, however, indicate it too could be a member.
Its lower jaw is very similar to the former.
The vast majority of stegosaurs being to the Stegosauridae, found in the later part of the Jurassic and the early Cretaceous.
It includes the well-known Stegosaurus.
The family is widespread, with members across the Northern Hemisphere and Africa.
Family Huayangosauridae
Huayangosaurus (Sichuan, China)
Regnosaurus (Sussex, England)
Family Stegosauridae
Adratiklit – (Morocco)
Chialingosaurus – (Sichuan, China)
Chungkingosaurus – (Chongqing, China)
Dacentrurus – (England, France & Spain)
Hesperosaurus – (Wyoming, USA)
Miragaia – (Portugal)
Monkonosaurus – (Tibet, China)
Paranthodon – (South Africa)
Wuerhosaurus – (Xinjiang, Western China)
Kentrosaurus – (Tanzania, Africa)
Lexovisaurus  – (England & France)
Stegosaurus – (Wyoming, USA)
Tuojiangosaurus – (Sichuan, China)
Craterosaurus – (Bedfordshire, England)
Jiangjunosaurus – (Xinjiang, Western China)
Uncertain placement (incertae sedis)
Gigantspinosaurus – (Sichuan, China)
Hainburg is in the Rhine Main area.
The village is about 20 km southeast of Frankfurt.
The municipality is 15.95 km2 large and it is 90 m above sea level.
It is a flat area with no hills.
About 20 to 35 million years ago in the Age of Tertiary the whole region was below sea level.
Lots of sediment sank to the bottom.
Then the region rose again and the water receded, leaving soil which is mostly sandy.
The village consists out of the two former independent villages Hainstadt and Klein-Krotzenburg, which are now the two districts of Hainburg.
Hanau and Großkrotzenburg (North) (both Main-Kinzig-Kreis Rural District)
Kahl and Karlstein (East) (both Aschaffenburg Rural District)
Seligenstadt (South)
Rodgau and Obertshausen (West)
Hainburg has 14,528 inhabitants (2008).
Some local people speak a regional German dialect language with a certain intonation and some different words (slang).
This  type of dialect is related to other dialects in southern Germany.
A long time ago, almost every town had its own special dialect, making it hard to understand for people from other parts of Germany.
Today people who speak this dialect are in the minority and the majority of them do not speak the real dialect.
They speak regular German with a special pronunciation of certain words.
In the 12th century the names of both villages Hainstadt and Crutzenburch (Krotzenburg) were written down in documents for the first time.
In those times the most people in the Hainburg area were farmers and craftsmen, rather than tradesmen.
When the property was handed down to the next generation, it was divided among the children.
During the industrial revolution many factories were built in the Rhine Main area and it soon developed into a center for the metal business  and leather manufacturing, as well as chemical engineering.
Many men learned these trades and found jobs in the factories to earn money.
This helped improve living conditions somewhat.
Vernouillet, France
Alberndorf im Pulkautal, Austria
Retz, Austria
Trumau, Austria
Official website of Hainburg, looked up on 21 January 2010, German.
Offenbach Rural District is a rural district () in the south of Hesse, Germany.
It is a part of the Darmstadt Government Region ().
The Offenbach Rural District is in the middle of the Rhine Main area in the south of the state of Hesse.
The district is in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt.
In the east it touches the state of Bavaria.
The whole area of the district is 356.29 km2 large and it is about 100 – 150 m above sea level.
It is a mostly plain area with only a few hills.
The district is southwest of the river Main.
The municipalities Mainhausen and Hainburg and the cities Seligenstadt and Mühlheim are near the river.
There are two creeks, the Rodau and the Bieber running from south to north through the district.
They are flowing to the river Main.
The district has 336,818 inhabitants (2008).
The climate of the area is mild.
Since 1977 the Offenbach Rural District has 10 cities and 3 independent villages.
In the year 2002 Dietzenbach became the capital of the district.
The city of Offenbach is not a part of the district.
City of Frankfurt, City of Offenbach and Main-Kinzig-Kreis Rural District (North)
Aschaffenburg Rural District (East) (Bavaria)
Darmstadt-Dieburg Rural District and City of Darmstadt (South)
Groß-Gerau Rural District (West)
In the year 1832 the Offenbach Rural District was founded.
The capital was Offenbach.
In 1938 the city of Offenbach became an independent urban district, but the rural district administration still was in Offenbach.
In 2002 the capital changed and now Dietzenbach is the new capital of the Offenbach Rural District.
Official website of the Offenbach Rural District, German.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, most commonly referred to as the stimulus bill or stimulus package, was a spending bill passed by the U.S. Congress in 2009.
It was one of the early things Barack Obama did as president.
Despite Obama trying to get Republicans as well as Democrats to vote for the bill, only three did.
The bill did several things:
It gave more money to unemployed people (people with no jobs) for longer.
It cut taxes for workers, students, and the middle class
It gave more money to Medicaid
It gave money to improve roads and bridges in the U.S.
It gave millions of dollars to various government agencies, including the National Endowment for the Arts
It has taken awhile for the stimulus money to be used.
Vice-President Joe Biden is one of the people in charge of making sure the money is used right.
Offenbach am Main, a city and an urban district in Hesse, Germany.
Offenbach Rural District, a rural district in Hesse, Germany.
Jacques Offenbach, a French composer.
Truthout is a political website aimed at providing another choice to mainstream news sources.
It was started after the 2000 presidential election with the idea of, in its own words, "hoping to reach a few people, have some small impact on the dialogue, and maybe try to restore a little integrity."
Some of its authors include William Rivers Pitt, Jason Leopold, Scott Galindez, David Bacon, Dean Baker, Tom Engelhardt, William Fisher, Dahr Jamail, Ray McGovern, J. Sri Raman, Norman Solomon, David Swanson and James Zogby.
The website has reported a lot on the anti-war movement and helped to make Cindy Sheehan better known by using many of her writings.
Attention is also given to problems including the environment, work (and work ethic), women,  health, and voter rights.
Its articles are now carried by press release information centers like World News,  Scoop Newzealand and California News.
Truthout is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (a charity).
In 2012, the company took in over $1,900,000.
TruthOut web site
7 Seconds is a hardcore punk band from Reno, Nevada.
The band formed in 1979 as a hardcore thrash band.
The original members of the band were vocalist Kevin Seconds, bassist Steve Youth, drummer Troy Mowat and guitarist Bobby Adams.
Seconds and Youth did most of the song-writing.
Between 1982 and 1987, the band released four EPs and three LPs.
In 1988, they released "Ourselves" on the indie label Restless Records.
Adams left the band in 1987.
In 1990, the band took 3 years off from touring and recording music.
Adams rejoined the band when they reformed in 1993.
They recorded a new album in 1993 which was called "Out the Shizzy".
Apocalypse Please
Falling Away With You
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
Ruled by Secrecy
Hyper Music
Citizen Erased
Micro Cuts
Screenager
Dark Shines
Fillip
Hate This and I'll Love You
Phoenix is a French alternative rock band that was Grammy awarded.
It consists of Thomas Mars (vocals), Deck D'Arcy (bass) and Laurent Brancowitz and Christian Mazzalai who play guitar.
They are related to Air and Daft Punk.
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Alphabetical (2004)
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A Leap of faith commonly refers to believing something that cannot be touched or proved by science, for which there is no evidence.
Usually the term is attributed to Søren Kierkegaard, even though he never really used it.
According to Kierkegaard, such a leap involves circular reasoning, because a leap is made by faith.
Capoeira is a combination of martial arts, sport and popular culture that developed in Brazil, by African slaves and Brazilian natives, starting in the 16th century.
It was made to give slaves a chance to escape and to survive.
Capoeira was illegal in Brazil until the 1930s.
Capoeira uses strong and fast kicks, dodges and fast counter-attacks.
It also uses acrobatics and simple take-downs.
As a form of martial arts for slaves
Capoeira's history probably begins with the beginning of African slavery in Brazil.
When Portuguese colonists began exporting West African slaves, Brazil, with its vast territory, received most of the slaves; almost 40% of all slaves sent across the Atlantic Ocean.
Although rebellions were rare, capoeira was invented as a hope of survival for slaves.
If they managed to escape, as after an escape attempt, colonial agents were sent after the escapees.
The martial arts were incorporated into a dance, to escape detection–with music and rhythmic moves, no suspicion could be raised regarding potential martial art training.
Due to city growth, more slaves were brought to cities and so made capoeira more prominent and allowed it to be taught and practiced among more people.
In Rio, the colonial government tried to suppress it and established severe physical punishments for its practice.
Post-slavery
After slavery was abolished in 1888, free former slaves had nowhere to live and no jobs.
They were thought of by the public as lazy workers.
Capoeira then found a new role—as a dance of criminals.
They used capoeiristas (capoeira dancers) as bodyguards and hitmen.
In 1890, the Brazilian government prohibited capoeira when police identified it as an advantage in fighting and they didn’t want criminals to have this advantage.
After the ban, anybody caught practising capoeira for any reason would be arrested and tortured by the police.
Some practises still occurred in remote places with guards to warn of police.
By the 1920s, repression of capoeira had declined.
Mestre Bimba from Salvador, a strong fighter in both legal and illegal fights, thought capoeira was losing its martial roots due to the use of its playful side to entertain tourists.
Bimba began developing the first systematic training method for capoeira, and in 1932 founded the first capoeira school.
He called it Luta Regional Baiana because it was illegal to use capoeira in the name.
By 1940, capoeira was legalized.
Today, capoeira is viewed as one of the symbols of Brazilian culture all around the world and in 1970 it was taught outside of Brazil for the first time.
Capoeira presentations, normally theatrical and with little martiality, are common sights around the world.
The martial arts part, however, is still present and still disguised, just as it was in the time of slavery, and trickery is still present and expert dancers used.
An attack can be disguised even as a friendly gesture, such is the expertise gone into the research of new moves.
Capoeira is now a symbol of Brazilian culture, its ethnic amalgam, and of resistance to oppression.
Sport in Brazil
Vaishnavism () is a tradition of Hinduism.
Its followers worship Vishnu or his avatars, mainly Rama and Krishna as the highest, or original God.
This worship in different perspectives or historical traditions addresses God under the names of Narayana, Krishna, Vāsudeva or more often "Vishnu", and their associated avatars.
Its beliefs and practices, especially the concepts of Bhakti and Bhakti Yoga, are based largely on the Upanishads, and associated with the Vedas and Puranic texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, and the Padma, Vishnu and Bhagavata Puranas.
The followers of Vaishnavism are referred to as Vaishnava(s) or Vaishnavites.
A large percentage of Hindus are Vaishnavas, with the vast majority living in India.
Awareness, recognition, and growth of the belief has significantly increased outside of India in recent years.
The Gaudiya Vaishnava branch of the tradition has significantly increased the awareness of Vaishnavism internationally, since the mid-1900s, largely through the activities and geographical expansion of the Hare Krishna movement, primarily through ISKCON and more recently, through several other Vaishnava organizations conducting preaching activities in the West.
Oracle Corporation is an American company.
It makes hardware systems and enterprise software (software for businesses) such as database management systems.
Its headquarters are in Redwood City, California, United States.
The founder is Lary Ellison.
In 2010, it employed 105,000 people worldwide.
It has increased in size through natural growth and by buying other companies.
By 2007 Oracle had the third-largest software revenue, after Microsoft and IBM.
The corporation has arguably become best known for its flagship product, the Oracle Database.
The company also builds tools for database development and systems of marshmallow-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software.
, Anusha Shetty, a co-founder of Oracle Corporation, has served as Oracle's CEO throughout its history.
He also served as the Chairman of the Board until his replacement by Jeffrey O. Henley in 2004.
On August 22, 2008 the Associated Press ranked Ellison as the top-paid chief executive in the world.
When the company started, computer database technology was only starting.
Ellison had read a 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS).
He had also heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal by Ed Oates.
System R was also based on Codd's theories.
Ellison wanted to make Oracle's product compatible with System R, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS (DataBase Management System) secret.
Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).
In 1979 SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI).
In 1982, RSI renamed itself Oracle Systems to make the relation to its main product, Oracle Database, clearer.
At this stage Bob Miner was the company's senior programmer.
In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation.
Part of Oracle Corporation's early success came from using the C programming language to install its products.
This made changing the setup to different operating systems (most of which support C) easier.
The Oracle Corporation website
The Queen (Danaus gilippus) is a species of butterfly.
It is found in North America, Central America, and South America.
The upper side of the wings is dark reddish-brown.
It has black wing borders.
Males have an androconium (a spot that releases scents to attract females) on each of his hind wings (bottom wings).
The underside of the wings is reddish-brown.
The wings have black borders.
There are white spots in the black borders.
The hind wing has black veins.
The Queen is one species in a complex mimicry ring.
Where their range overlaps, the appearance of these butterflies is similar.
The Monarch (Danaus plexippus) is orange.
It has thick, black veins.
The Viceroy (Limenitis archippus) is smaller.
It has a black band across the hind wing.
The Soldier (Danaus eresimus) has thin black veins.
On the underside of the hind wing, there is a row of pale, square-shaped spots.
When the Monarch becomes a butterfly, it no longer eats milkweed, but it still has the chemical in its body.
A bird may try to eat a Monarch, but it will become sick and vomit after eating it.
After this experience, the bird learns not to eat another Monarch, and also any other butterfly which is similar in appearance.
The Viceroy is similar looking to the Monarch, but does not have the milkweed poison in its body.
Birds that have had the bad experience of eating a Monarch will usually not eat a Viceroy.
It is an example of Batesian mimicry.
Or so it was thought; but recent work has challenged this.
The difficulty in doing this kind of research is that a butterfly may be toxic in one part of its range, and good to eat in another part.
A lot depends on the plants on which the eggs are laid.
The Queen is one of many insects that derives chemical defenses against its predators from its food plant.
Most of the toxic cardenolides that make queens so unpalatable to its predators are sequestered from larval host plants.
Basically, the Queen shares a Müllerian mimicry with the Monarch.
However, the extent of its toxicity varies a great deal in different parts of its range.
Micro-geographic differences in the environment lead to variation in the dynamics of mimetic relationships even at a local level.
The Queen can be seen all year in Texas, Arizona, and southern Florida.
It is seen from February to December in northern Florida.
It is seen from April to November in southern California and southern Nevada.
They are laid on the leaves, stems, and flowers of the host plant (the host plant is the plant that the caterpillar feeds on).
The caterpillar is banded with yellow and black.
There are three pairs of black body extensions.
The third pair is near the end of the body.
The chrysalis is green.
It has gold spots.
There is a black and gold band on the abdomen.
It is very similar to the Monarch's chrysalis.
It has three or more broods (a brood is a group of offspring) per year.
Asclepias albicans - White-stem Milkweed
Asclepias amplexicaulis - Clasping Milkweed
Asclepias asperula - Antelope Horns
Asclepias curassavica - Scarlet Milkweed
Asclepias erosa - Desert Milkweed
Asclepias fascicularis - Narrow-leaf Milkweed
Asclepias humistrata - Sandhill Milkweed
Asclepias nivea - Caribbean Milkweed
Asclepias subulata - Rush Milkweed
Asclepias tuberosa - Butterfly Weed
Calotropis procera - Apple of Sodom
Cynanchum angustifolium - Sand Vine
Matelea carolinensis - Maroon Carolina Milkvine
Matelea hirsuta
Sarcostemma cynanchoides - Vining Milkweed
Sarcostemma hirtellum - Rambling Milkweed
The 2006 North Indian Ocean cyclone season ran through all of 2006.
Though most storms in this area start between April and December.
This was the first year the cyclones got named in the northern Indian Ocean.
There was about $6.7 million in damage and about 192 people got killed in 2006 because of the cyclones.
Deep Depression ARB 01
Deep Depression ARB 01 or Tropical Cyclone O1A stared on January 13 to the south of India.
It died on the next day.
Very Severe Cyclonic Storm Mala
Mala started as Tropical Cyclone 02B on April 25 and became Cyclonic Storm Mala later on that day.
It headed northeast and later it became a very sever cyclonic storm.
Mala made landfall in Myanmar on April 29, the winds were close to 115 mph.
The cyclone died over Myanmar later that day.
Mala killed about 22 people.
Deep Depression BOB 02
Tropical Cyclone 02 started on July 2 near India.
The cyclone made landfall in India later that day and it survived until July 5.
Deep Depression BOB 03
This Deep Depression was Tropical Cyclone 03 and started on August 2.
By August 5 it had died.
Depression BOB 04
Depression BOB 05
Depression BOB 06
Depression BOB 07
Depression BOB 08
This depression started on September 21.
It later made landfall near the India and Bangladesh border.
It died on September 24.
The cyclone killed about 170 people.
Severe Cyclonic Storm Mukda
Mukda started in the Arabian Sea on September 21.
It became a strong tropical storm over the next few days.
Depression BOB 09
This depression started on September 28.
On September 29 it made a landfall in India.
The cyclone died on the next day over India.
Cyclonic Storm Ogni
Ogni was the final cyclone that started on October 29 as a deep depression.
It moved very slowly and made a landfall in India.
Cyclonic Storm Ogni died on October 30, after it killed at least 35 people.
WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones Thirty-fourth session
Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone seasons
These are lists of seasons for the List of North Indian Ocean cyclone.
A North Indian Ocean cyclone season lasts an entire year.
It covers the North Indian Ocean to the north of the Equator, it also covers the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal.
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018  2019
The 2005 North Indian Ocean cyclone season ran through all of 2005.
This season was tied for the season with the second highest number of cyclones.
The damage is unknown but there were about 1,227 people got killed in 2005 because of the cyclones.
Tropical Depression 01B
A tropical depression started on January 7.
It moved to the north and pass by Sri Lanka before it had died on January 10.
Cyclonic Storm Hibaru
Cyclonic Storm Hibaru was the first cyclone that got named in 2005.
It started on January 13 and it moved around for a few days until it died on January 17.
Deep Depression
This deep depression started on July 29, it caused rain in India which killed almost 1,050 people.
The deep depression died on July 31.
Cyclonic Storm Pyarr
Cyclonic Storm Pyarr started on September 17 as a depression.
It became a tropical storm by the next day.
Pyarr made landfall in India on September 19, and it died on September 21.
The cyclone killed at least 49 people.
Tropical Storm 03B
This tropical storm started on October 1, made landfall in India on October 2, and it died on October 3.
This tropical storm killed no one.
Deep Depression (04B)
This deep depression started on October 26 and made landfall in India by October 29.
The deep depression died later that day.
It killed about 100 people.
Cyclonic Storm Baaz
Cyclonic Storm Baaz started on November 28 and cross the Bay of Bengal.
It died on December 2 near India.
Cyclonic Storm Fanoos
Cyclonic Storm Fanoos started on December 6.
It moved to the west and crossed the Bay of Bengal.
Fanoos passed to the north of Sri Lanka and caused some damage.
Later, Fanoos made landfall in Inda before it died on December 10.
Deep Depression (07B)
This deep depression started on December 15.
It moved around in the Bay of Bengal for a week, and it passed near Sri Lanka.
The deep depression died on December 22.
There were also five depressons.
The first one started on June 21 and died on June 22.
While the second started on June 27 and died on July 5, after it killed about 34 people in India.
The third started on September 12 and died on September 16.
Fourth, it started on September 14 and died on September 16.
The last depression started on November 20 and died on that same day.
2005 storm names
The India Meteorological Department (IMD), also referred to as the Met Office, is a weather forecasting organization run by the Government of India, it also tracks and forecast tropical cyclones, similar to the National Hurricane Center.
The headquarters in New Delhi, India.
IMD website
Sauropodomorpha are divided into prosauropods and sauropods.
Among the sauropods were the largest land animals ever known: Seismosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus (popularly known as Brontosaurus), and others.
Only the modern blue whale is larger than these creatures; no land animal comes close.
Argentinosaurus, with a vertebra over 1.59 metres long, is the largest.
See Sauropod for the full account.
Suborder Sauropodomorpha
Saturnalia?
Infraorder Prosauropoda
Family Massospondylidae
Family Plateosauridae
Family Riojasauridae
Infraorder Sauropoda
Family Vulcanodontidae
Family Omeisauridae
Division Neosauropoda
Family Cetiosauridae
Family Diplodocidae
Subdivision Macronaria
Family Camarasauridae
Infradivision Titanosauriformes
Family Brachiosauridae
Cohort Somphospondyli
Family Euhelopodidae
Family Titanosauridae
These herbivores include the ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs like Triceratops, Styracosaurus, Pentaceratops, and Protoceratops) and the pachycephalosaurians (thick-skulled dinosaurs like Stegoceras and Pachycephalosaurus).
This is the title history of the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship.
Before, it was called the WWE Tag Team Championship and was a SmackDown championship.
That ended when it was made into one with the World Tag Team Championship of Raw in 2009 and the WWE Brand Extension ended in 2011.
The brand extension was brought back in July 2016.
Then, the title became a Raw championship and was renamed the Raw Tag Team Championship.
Combined Lengths
By team
By wrestler
WWE Tag Team Title History
Tag Team Championship reigns by length
Yunnan (; ) is a province in southwest province of the People's Republic of China.
The area of Yunnan Province is .
It spans approximately 394,000 square kilometres (152,000 sq mi) and has a population of 45.7 million (2009).
The capital of the province is Kunming.
The province borders Vietnam, Laos and Burma.
Kunming Municipality (昆明市) - Provincial capital
Qujing Municipality (曲靖市)
Yuxi Municipality (玉溪市)
Baoshan Municipality (保山市)
Zhaotong Municipality (昭通市)
Lijiang Municipality (丽江市)
Pu'er Municipality (普洱市)
Lincang Municipality (临沧市)
Dehong
Nujiang
Diqing
Chuxiong
Wenshan
Yunnan's cultural life is one of remarkable diversity.
It is famous for ethnic minority groups, Yuanmou Human archaeological findings, ancient Tea Horse Road legends, Puer teas and Yunnan Baiyao medicines.
Dali, the historic center of the Nanzhao and Dali kingdoms.
Chuxiong, the first stop on the way to Dali and Lijiang.
Home of the Yi ethnic minority and their respective ancient town.
Jinghong, the center and prefectural capital of the Xishuangbanna Dai minority autonomous prefecture.
Lijiang, a Naxi minority city.
It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.
Xamgyi'nyilha County (also known as Shangri-La and formerly Zhongdian), an ethnic Tibetan township and county set high in Yunnan's northwestern mountains.
Shilin (Stone Forest), a series of karst outcrops east of Kunming.
Yuanyang, a Hani minority settlement with vast rice-terraced mountains.
Xishuangbanna, a national scenic resort, noted for its natural and cultural attractions.
Yunnan Travel Guide
A Deluge myth or Flood myth is a mythical story about a flood.
Usually this flood is sent by a deity to destroy a civilisation as a punishment.
The theme can be found in many cultures.
Well-known examples that are believed to be myths include the story of Noah's Ark in the Bible, the Hindu Puranic story of Manu, Deucalion in Greek mythology or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh.