the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
The western valleys, along the Haitian border, remain relatively dry, with less than 760 mm of annual precipitation.
The northwestern and southeastern extremes of the country are also very dry.
There are several smaller islands and cays that are part of the Dominican Republic.
The largest islands are:
It has an area of 117 km².
It has an area of 27 km².
It has an area of 9.6 km².
Some of the cays are Cayos Siete Hermanos (in English, "Seven Brothers Cays"), close to the northwestern coast, and the cays of Samaná Bay.
Mountains and Valleys
The Dominican Republic is a country with many mountains; the highest peaks of the Caribbean are found here.
The chains of mountains show a direction northwest-southeast and they are separated by valleys with the same general direction.
It runs parallel to the north coast, with extensions to the northwest, the Tortuga Island north of Haiti, and to the southeast, the Samaná Peninsula (with its Sierra de Samaná).
Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to the city of Santiago, with 1,249 m. There are several small plains between this range and the Atlantic Ocean.
Rivers are short and most of them flow to the north.
The Cibao Valley is the largest and most important valley of the country.
This long valley goes from Northern Haiti, where is called Plaine du Nord, to Samaná Bay.
It can be divided in two parts: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley (or Línea Noroeste) and the eastern Yuna Valley (or Vega Real, English: Royal Valley).
The Vega Real has the best soils of the country; the population density is high.
The Cordillera Central (in English, "Central Range") is also called Sierra del Cibao and in Haiti as the Massif du Nord ("Northern Massif").
With its high mountains, it divides the country in two halves.
The highest mountains of the West Indies are in this range: Pico Duarte, 3,098 m, and others above 3,000 m. Near the center of the island, this range turns southward and is called Sierra de Ocoa, ending near the city of Azua de Compostela, on the Caribbean coast.
Another branch, Cordillera Oriental (in English, "Eastern Range") or Sierra del Seibo is separated from the main chain by the region known as Los Haitises; it has a west-east direction and is located south of Samaná Bay.
The San Juan Valley and Plain of Azua are big valleys south of the Cordillera Central with altitude from 0 to 600 m.
The Sierra de Neiba; Mount Neiba is the highest mountain here with 2,279 m. An extension to the southeast of Sierra de Neiba is the Sierra Martín García (Loma Busú, 1,350 m).
The Hoya de Enriquillo or Neiba Valley is a remarkable valley, with a west-east direction, of low altitude (on average 50 m with some points below sea level) and with a great salt lake: the Enriquillo Lake.
The Sierra de Bahoruco, called Massif de la Selle in Haiti.
Rivers and Lakes
Yaque del Norte is the longest river of the Dominican Republic, with 296 km.
Its sources are in the Cordillera Central and flows through the Yaque del Norte Valley to the Atlantic Ocean.
Its sources are in the Cordillera Central and flows to the east through the Vega Real and to Samaná Bay.
The city of Santo Domingo is on both sides of this river.
Its watershed has 2,655 km².
Its sources are in the Cordillera Central and flows to the south through the San Juan Valley; it is the main tributary of the Yaque del Sur River.
The largest lake of the Hispaniola, and of the Caribbean, is the Lake Enriquillo.
Others lakes are Rincón (fresh water, area of 28.2 km²), Oviedo (brackish water, area of 28 km²), Redonda, Limón.
Arbedo-Castione is a municipality of the district of Bellinzona in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
Zofingen is a city in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
It is the capital of the district of Zofingen.
http://www.zofingen.ch
http://www.zofingen2008.ch
http://www.siegfried.ch
Arogno is a municipality of the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino.
Arogno.ch Official web site
Aarwangen is a municipality of the administrative district of Oberaargau in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Official Website of Aarwangen
Bern: Schloss Aarwangen - Le château de Aarwangen (in French but with stunning photos)
Adelboden is a municipality of the administrative district of Frutigen-Niedersimmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
The municipality of Adelboden official website
Adelboden tourism
Vogellisi-Festival
Adelboden, Lucerne in Switzerland
Adelbonen, Schwyz in Switzerland
Aefligen is a municipality of the administrative district of Emmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Aegerten is a municipality of the administrative district of Biel/Bienne of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
Official statistics for Swiss municipalities
Aeschi bei Spiez is a municipality of the administrative district of Frutigen-Niedersimmental in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
107 Camilla is one of the biggest main belt asteroids.
It orbits within the Cybele Group, beyond most of the main belt asteroids.
It has a very dark surface and is made of carbonate.
It was found by N. R. Pogson on November 17, 1868, and named after Camilla, Queen of the Volsci in Roman mythology.
Moon (S/2001 (107) I)
On March 1, 2001, a moon of Camilla was found by A. Storrs, F. Vilas, R. Landis, E. Wells, C. Woods, B. Zellner, and M. Gaffey using the Hubble Space Telescope.
It has been labelled S/2001 (107) 1 but it does not yet have an official name.
Later sightings in September 2005 with the VLT allowed scientists to work out its orbit.
Apart from data in infobox, the inclination was found to be 3 ± 1° with respect to an axis pointing towards (β, λ) = (+55°, 75°).
Given the ~10° uncertainty in the actual rotational axis of Camilla, the orbit's inclination probably is less than 10°.
The moon is estimated to be about 11 km in diameter.
If it has the same density as Camilla, this would give it a mass of about ~1.5 kg.
It has a similar colour to Camilla.
Hubble Finds New Asteroid Moon (SpaceDaily.com, 21-03-2001), includes discovery image.
107 Camilla and S/2001 (107) 1, orbit data website maintained by F. Marchis.
Includes orbit diagrams.
(born 14 September 1985 in Nerima, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress, idol and singer.
She became famous when she won the jury's special award in the "Japan Bishojo Contest", a beauty and talent competition.
Her first single was Pureness.
Aya Ueto Wallpapers,Photos,Pictures
Chitose Hajime (元ちとせ Hajime Chitose) is a singer from Japan.
She is from Amami Ōshima and sings in a style particular to that region, with distinctive falsetto effects.
Because of this, it is said that her voice has a relaxing effect that has been observed in electroencephalograms taken from the brains of people listening to her singing.
Chitose Hajime was recognized as a gifted folk singer at a young age.
She won many folk song competitions, released two traditional folk albums on an indie label, and was approached by many record labels.
She decided to study to become a beautician instead of pursuing music.
However, Hajime had severe allergic reactions to many of the chemicals used by beauticians.
She withdrew from school, and seriously considered a music career.
In 2001, she released a self-titled mini-album on the indie label Office Augusta.
The album was covers of older songs, but was so well received that Hajime was pushed to release another mini-album.
In August 2001, Chitose released her second mini-album with Augusta Records entitled Kotonoha ( コトノハ, Kotonoha) .
This release featured 5 original tracks.
In 2002 she released her first major label single on Epic Records - "Wadatsumi no Ki" ( ワダツミの木, "Wadatsumi no Ki") .
It was the third highest selling single of the year behind only Hikaru Utada 's " traveling ", and Ayumi Hamasaki 's " H ".
Three months later, she released a brand new single, "Kimi wo Omō" ( 君ヲ想フ, "Kimi wo Omō") .
While also very popular, it was not nearly the success that her first single was, although it did help to cement her as a permanent artist.
Her first major album, Hainumikaze ( ハイヌミカゼ, Hainumikaze), followed later in the year.
It sold 800,000 copies, charted for 57 weeks, and was the 16th highest selling album of the year.
She released 3 more singles before her second major album, Nomad Soul ( ノマド・ソウル, nomado souru ), was released in 2003.
Shortly after a concert tour, and the release of a live album and DVD in 2004, Hajime announced that she would be taking time away from the music scene to get married, and have a child.
Her first child miscarried, but she successfully gave birth to a girl on January 20, 2005.
She returned to the music industry in November 2005 with the single "Kataritsugu Koto" ( 語り継ぐこと, "Kataritsugu Koto"), the ending theme for the anime BLOOD+ .
The single was a hit, reaching #12 on the Oricon charts.
She followed this success with her next come-back single, "Haru no Katami" ( 春のかたみ, "Haru no Katami"), the ending theme for the anime AYAKASHI - Japanese Classic Horror .
This single sold 6050 copies in its first week, and remained on the charts for 7 weeks total.
A third single was released before her next album.
The single, "Ao no Requiem" ( 青のレクイエム, "Ao no Requiem"), was the theme song for the Studio GAGA film Hatsukoi .
It featured 1 extra track, and charted for 3 weeks.
The following week, Hajime released her third original major album, Hanadairo ( ハナダイロ, Hanadairo) .
The album was available in both a regular edition, and a limited edition.
The limited edition featured a 13th track, "Shinda Onna no Ko" ( 死んだ女の子, "Shinda Onna no Ko") with Ryuichi Sakamoto, as well as a DVD containing the music videos for "Kataritsugu Koto", and "Haru no Katami".
Felicity means happiness.
Felicity, a television series
Felicity (1979 movie)
Felicity: An American Girl Adventure, a 2005 TV movie
Felicity (name)
Felicity Flint, Agent from H.A.R.M.
Felicity Huffman, American actress best known from the TV series "Desperate Housewives"
Felicity Kendal (born 1946), British actress
Saint Felicity of Rome, 2nd century Christian martyr
Santa Felicita di Firenze, the second-oldest church in Florence
Felicity and Perpetua, martyrs.
Felicitas and Perpetua (parish), in the San Gabriel Pastoral Region, California.
109 Felicitas, a main belt asteroid
Scrabble is a game that is played by 2, 3 or 4 people.
It uses a board with squares on it (15x15) and a large number of letters on small tiles.
Each player, when it is his/her turn, has to put a word on the board, using any of the seven letters (seven tiles) that they have in front of them.
Their word must join on to what is already on the board.
The players decide who is going to start by taking one letter (one tile) from the bag.
The person with the letter closest to the beginning of the alphabet may start.
Each player takes seven tiles from the bag (without looking at what they are).
The player puts these tiles on a rack in front of him so that he can see them, but the others cannot see which letters he has.
After each turn a player can take some new letters out of the bag so that he has seven letters again for his next turn.
The first player puts a word on the board using some, or all, of his seven letters as possible.
He must include the square in the middle.
It is then the next player's turn.
His word must join on somewhere to what the other player has already put.
Sometimes it is possible to make two or more words in one turn by touching other letters, but each word on the board reading horizontally (left to right) or vertically (top to bottom) must be a proper word (no names) but abbreviations (shortened forms) are allowed.
Each tile (each letter) has a number of points.
The common letters such as A, B, T, etc.
are worth one point.
Unusual letters such as Q and Z are worth 10 points.
There are also two blank tiles which can be used for any letter.
A player must say what the letter is when he puts it down, e.g. he might say that "C" "A" "Blank" spells "CAT".
During the rest of the game that blank tile must be treated as a letter "T".
There are several squares on the board where a player can get extra points.
Some squares allow the player to count that letter twice (light blue) or three times (dark blue), other squares allow him to count the whole word twice (light red) or three times (dark red).
The aim of the game is to get as many points as possible.
A long word will not always get as many points as a shorter word.
It depends which letters are used.
It is also a good idea not put a word which will let the next player make a high score.
There are special Scrabble dictionaries available in which all allowable words are listed.
When playing according to the proper rules one is not allowed to use a dictionary to find a word.
However, if one of players challenges another (i.e. if he says: "The word you have put down is not allowed"), then the players may check it in the dictionary.
If the word does not exist, the player must take his letters back and he loses his turn.
After a while there are no more letters in the bag.
The game finishes when one player has no more letters.
The other players have to count the points for the letters they still have in front of them, and take them away from their total score.
Scrabble is available in many languages.
Even if a language uses the same letters as English, some of the common English letters may be unusual in another language, and common letters there may be unusual in English.
There are versions in languages with other alphabets, such as Russian.
Scrabble was invented in 1938 by an architect named Alfred Mosher Butts.
He had previously invented a similar game called Lexiko.
He worked out how many points should be given for each letter by looking at books and newspapers and counting how often particular letters are used in the English language.
He called the game "Criss-Crosswords".
However, he was not successful in selling the game.
In 1948 a lawyer called James Brunot bought the rights to make to game.
Brunot made some of the rules easier, and changed the name to "Scrabble", which is a real word meaning: “to scratch around frantically”.
Soon other firms around the world were buying rights to make the game.
It had become so popular by 1984 that it was made into a daytime TV show on NBC television.
The name Scrabble today is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the US and Canada and of J. W. Spear & Sons PLC in other countries.
All over the world people play Scrabble in clubs and tournaments.
People who play in serious tournaments are given a time limit.
They lose points if they spend too long thinking about their moves.
FLOW is a Japanese music band.
The group is made of five men.
The group was made in 1998.
Their songs are used in different anime series, like Naruto and Eureka Seven.
With starting numbers like: Sign, Go.
KOHSHI (Vocal)　April 22, 1977
KEIGO (Vocal)　July 1, 1977
TAKE (Guitar, Chorus)　August 31, 1978
GOT'S (Bass, Chorus)　January 26, 1977
IWASAKI (Drum)　November 21, 1969
The first, and most well known, were the trials of the leaders of Nazi Germany.
This was organized by the International Military Tribunal (IMT).
The judges and prosecutors were from the four wartime Allies, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The second set of trials were the 12 follow up trials ().
These trials were of groups of lower-ranking Nazis, like doctors, and officials of the German Foreign Office.
Although the follow up trials were held in the same courtroom as the IMT trials, they were run by the Americans alone.
The main trial
The International Military Tribunal was opened on October 18, 1945, in the Supreme Court Building in Berlin.
The first session was presided over by the Soviet judge, Nikitchenko.
The prosecution brought charges against 24 major war criminals and six criminal organizations – the leadership of the Nazi Party, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung (SA) and the High Command of the German armed forces (OKW).
Working with other people (legally called "Taking part in a conspiracy") to commit a crime against peace
Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
The death sentences were carried out on 16 October 1946 by hanging using the inefficient American "standard" drop method instead of the long drop.
The executioner was John C. Woods.
The French judges suggested the use of a firing squad for the military condemned, as is standard for military courts-martial, but this was opposed by Biddle and the Soviet judges.
They said that the military officers acted so badly they did not deserve to be treated as soldiers.
The prisoners sentenced to jail were transferred to Spandau Prison in 1947.
The definition of what constitutes a war crime is described by the Nuremberg Principles, a document which was created as a result of the trial.
The medical experiments conducted by German doctors and prosecuted in the so-called Doctors' Trial led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code to control future trials involving human subjects.
Four organisations were charged as being criminal.
Only the SS was found guilty.
These organisations were found not to be criminal:
Reichsregierung, (the Reich government or Cabinet)
Oberkommando and Generalstab der Wehrmacht, (the High Command and General Staff of the Armed Forces)
Sturmabteilung (the Stormtroopers or "Brownshirts")
Nuremburg Follow-up Trials
Orthographic projection is a way of showing a 3D object in 2D. It is a form of parallel projection, where the view direction is orthogonal to the projection plane.
Educational website describing the principles of first and third angle projection – University of Limerick
In linear algebra and functional analysis, a projection is a linear transformation P from a vector space to itself such that P2 = P.  Projections map the whole vector space to a subspace and leave the points in that subspace unchanged.
N. Dunford and J.T. Schwartz, Linear Operators, Part I: General Theory, Interscience, 1958.
Carl D. Meyer, Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2000. .
MIT Linear Algebra Lecture on Projection Matrices  at Google Video, from MIT OpenCourseWare
It uses its revenue and/or capital to achieve its purpose or mission.
The decision to adopt a non profit legal structure is one that will often have tax benefits.
Governments may see them as supporting activities which help the community.
In England this is more often referred to as "not-for-profit", and includes local and national government.
Non-profit organizations are allowed to pay their workers, but sometimes workers at non-profit organizations are volunteers who do not get paid for their work.
Sometimes a non-profit may make money to help other people, which might include helping them start their own business or providing them with food, clothing or shelter.
Some non-profits try to help endangered animals or the environment.
Some non-profits are small groups of people such as a block association or community group.
Others such as trade unions, universities or religions are large and well established, with many assets and many paid workers.
When a non-profit organization deals with politics or international issues it can be called a non-governmental organization or NGO.
The Wikimedia organization, which runs Wikipedia is a non-profit.
It is based in Florida in the United States.
It is also a not-for-profit corporation.
In accounting, expense has a very specific meaning.
It is when cash or some other valuable object goes from a person or company to another person or company.
A Deposit Account is an account at a bank where money can be put in or taken out by whoever owns the account.
Each time money is moved, it is recorded in the bank's books.
Some banks charge a fee for this, others may pay the customers interest.
Deposit account definition and explanations in simple terms
'Filippo Brunelleschi ( , , also known as Pippo; 1377 – 15 April 1446) was one of the most important architects of the Italian Renaissance.
All of his most well-known works are in Florence, Italy.
Brunelleschi was born in Florence, Italy in 1377.
His family consisted of his father, Brunellesco di Lippo, a notary and civil servant, his mother Giuliana Spini, and his two brothers.
The family was well-off; the palace of the Spini family still exists, across from the Church of the Trinita in Florence.
Dome of the Florence Cathedral (1419–1436)
Ospedale degli Innocenti (1419–ca.1445)
The Basilica of San Lorenzo (1419–1480s)
Meeting Hall of the Palazzo di Parte Guelfa (1420s–1445)
Sagrestia Vecchia, or Old Sacristy of S. Lorenzo (1421–1440)
Santa Maria degli Angeli: unfinished, (begun 1434)
The lantern of Florence Cathedral (1436–ca.1450)
The exedrae of Florence Cathedral (1439–1445)
The church of Santo Spirito (1441–1481)
Pazzi Chapel (1441–1460s)
(in line presentation)
Vereycken, Karel, "The Secrets of the Florentine Dome", Schiller Institute, 2013. (
Translation from the French, "Les secrets du dôme de Florence", la revue Fusion, n° 96, Mai, Juin 2003)
"The Great Cathedral Mystery", PBS Nova TV documentary, February 12, 2014
Free audio guide of Brunelleschi's Dome
1377 births
1446 deaths
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy.
It is one of the important rivers of central Italy.
Source and route
The river begins on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines.
It first takes a curve to the south.
The river turns to the west near Arezzo.
It passes through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, then flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Marina di Pisa.
At a length of , it is the longest river in the region.
A flood on November 4, 1966 collapsed the embankment in Florence.
This killed at least 40 people.
It also damaged or destroyed millions of works of art and rare books.
40 years later, hundreds of works have still not been restored.
Lake Como () is a glacial lake in Lombardy, Italy.
It is the third largest lake in Italy (after Lake Garda and Lake Maggiore).
Some of the towns and villages on the shores of Lake Como are Como, Lierna, Lecco, Bellagio,  Mandello del Lario, and Lenno.
For many centuries Lierna has been the most exclusive place in the whole of Lake Como, frequented by kings, empresses, princely families, and where the most important managers and billions in the world buy a home, including the world president of Mercedes.
The chivalric order was founded in the Church of Lierna which allowed the birth of the royal house of the Kings of Italy, the Savoy.
Lierna is the place on Lake Como with the most beautiful life of all Lake Como and the place most represented by painters from all over Europe for many centuries, having a magical atmosphere.
The place is very private, the villas are hidden and not even George Clooney has managed to buy a villa offering over 100 million euros for years.
It is often said that the inhabitants of Lierna paid for not having Lierna appear on the geographical maps of Lake Como for centuries.
It is very difficult to stop in Lierna because there are deliberately no parking spaces and you can only arrive by boat by selecting who comes.
Luxury villas in Lierna are priceless and are one of the greatest status symbols in the world.
Lake Maggiore (in Italian: Lago Maggiore or lago Verbano) is the most westerly of the three large prealpine lakes of Italy and the second largest after Lake Garda.
Lake Maggiore - Tourist guide on the Lake Maggiore
Official Tourism Gateway Lake Maggiore Official Tourism Gateway
Ferry Services on Italian Lakes - Lake Maggiore
Lakes of Italy
Lakes of Ticino
GIMP is often used as a free software alternative for the most popular Adobe Photoshop, but it is not made to be an Adobe Photoshop clone.
GIMPs mascot is named Wilber.
GIMP was started in 1995 by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis and is now taken care of by a group of volunteers as part of the GNU Project.
The newest version of GIMP is v.2.8 and it was available since March 2009.
GIMPs license is the GNU General Public License, so GIMP is free software.
GIMP can be used for opening and changing many types of file formats.
GIMPs own file format is XCF, which is the name of the building where GIMP was written.
Some file formats that GIMP can be used with are bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF.
GIMP can also read and write path information from SVG files and GIMP can read Adobe PDF files and the raw image formats used by digital cameras, but cannot write to these formats.
Official GIMP Web site
He was born in Płońsk, Poland and aspired to create a state of Israel for all the oppressed Jews of Europe.
He moved to Palestine and worked as a farmer there until he was expelled during the First World War.
After the war he came back and founded the “Confederation of Jewish Workers.”
Then he became president of ‘’Mapai’’ or the Israeli Workers Party.
Eventually he got what he wanted when the state of Israel was founded after World War II.
After leading Israel to victory in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Ben-Gurion helped build the state institutions.
He retired from political life in 1970 and moved to Sde Boker, where he lived until his death.
He died of a stroke in Tel HaShomer, Israel.
After he died, Ben-Gurion was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Important People of the Century.
"Israel, 1948-."
History Study Centre.
ProQuest LLC.
10 June 2014
“David ben Gurion.”
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tel Aviv: Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1998.
netTrekker.
10 June 2014.
Kotoko (stylized as KOTOKO, born January 19) is a Japanese musician.
She was born January 19, in Hokkaido, Japan.
She is signed to "I've".
She writes the lyrics of her songs by herself, and gives them to other artists.
She plays an active role in the animation and game industry.
2004: Hane
2006: Uzu-Maki
North American appearances
Anime Expo 2005: Anaheim, CA (July 1–4, 2005)
Anaheim Convention Center
Anime North 2006: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 26–28, 2006)
Toronto Congress Centre, Doubletree International Plaza Hotel
YTV 2006: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 26, 2006)
YTV Studios
A-Kon 2006: Dallas, TX (June 9–11, 2006)
Adam's Mark Hotel
Animazement 2012: Raleigh, NC (May 25–27, 2012)
Raleigh Convention Center
Official website at Warner Home Video
Official website at Geneon
I've Sound official website
Anime North 2006: Kotoko Q&A
He was born in Madrid; his father served as a doctor in the French army, and, as an afrancesado, was forced to leave the Peninsula with his family in 1812.
In 1817 Larra went back to Spain, knowing less Spanish than French.
His nature was disorderly, his education was imperfect, and, after futile attempts to obtain a degree in medicine or law, he made an imprudent marriage at the age of twenty, broke with his relatives and became a journalist.
On the 27th of April 1831 he produced his first play, No más mostrador, based on two pieces by Scribe and Dieulafoy.
Though wanting in originality, it is brilliantly written, and held the stage for many years.
On the 24th of September 1834 he produced Macías, a play based on his own historical novel, El doncel de don Enrique el Doliente (1834).
The drama and novel are interesting as experiments, but Larra was essentially a journalist, and the increased liberty of the press after the death of Ferdinand VII gave his caustic talent an ampler field.
He was already famous under the pseudonyms of Juan Pérez de Munguía and Fígaro which he used in El Pobrecito Hablador and La Revista Española respectively.
Madrid laughed at his grim humour; ministers feared his vitriolic pen and courted him assiduously; he defended Liberalism against the Carlist rebellion; he was elected as deputy for Ávila, and a great career seemed to lie before him.
But the era of military pronunciamientos ruined his personal prospects and patriotic plans.
His writing took on a more sombre tinge; domestic troubles increased his pessimism, and, in consequence of a disastrous love-affair, he committed suicide by shooting himself in February 1837.
Larra lived long enough to prove himself the greatest prose-writer that Spain can boast during the 19th century.
He wrote at great speed with the constant fear of the censor before his eyes, but no sign of haste is discernible in his work, and the dexterity with which he aims his venomous shafts is amazing.
His political instinct, his abundance of ideas and his forcible, mordant style would have given him a foremost position at any time and in any country; in Spain, and in his own period, they placed him beyond all rivalry.
Some of his phrases like Vuelva usted mañana (come back tomorrow) or Escribir en España es llorar (To write in Spain is to cry) are still applied to chastise present-day ills.
The Spanish-language clone of the Slashdot Internet forum, Barrapunto, uses Pobrecito Hablador ("Poor little talker") as the name for anonymous commenters.
The Premio Mariano José de Larra rewards young outstanding journalists in Spain.
Mariano José de Larra in the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
Proyecto Mariano José de Larra en Internet
Mariano José de Larra: text, concordances and frequency list
Spanish journalists
Writers from Madrid
At the age of eighteen Molina became a member of the Society of Jesus.
He studied theology at Coimbra.
After this, he became professor in the university of Évora, Portugal.
From this post he was called, at the end of twenty years, to the chair of moral theology in Madrid.
Besides other works he wrote De liberi arbitrii cum gratiae donis, divina praescientia, praedestinatione et reprobatione concordia (4 vo.,
Lisbon, 1588); a commentary on the first part of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas (2 vols.,
fol.,
Cuenca, 1593); and a treatise De jure et justitia (6 vols.,
1593-1609).
1535 births
Spanish Roman Catholics
Henrik Johan Ibsen (born 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright.
He is often called the "father of modern drama."
Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the most important playwrights of all time, celebrated as a national symbol by Norwegians.
His greatest works can be said to be "A Doll's House" or "Enemy of the People."
Norwegian writers
A bead is a small item with a hole in it for stringing.
Beads can be threaded together on a string.
Beads can be made from many different things including wood, glass, and gemstones.
The oldest known beads are over 100,000 years old.
Beads, made from stones, have been found in the graves of the kings of Egypt.
Clay beads have always been made in abundance.
They were first painted in patterns similar to those used on bowls or pots.
Making beads in clay is a skill which is easy to learn.
The clay material presents a design opportunity limited only by the imagination and expertise of the maker.
During the last century in the western hemisphere, the wearing of beads has become the prerogative of woman.
Yet throughout history, men have worn great quantities of beads to show their masculinity and virility.
As early as 5000 BC men and women alike valued wearing strands of shell, stone, teeth and bone beads.
Faience and Carnelian beads found in an Egyptian tomb date back to 4000 BC.
Phoenician trade ships carried beads to and from Egypt as early as 2500 BC so it is impossible to know for sure how long beads were really in circulation.
The graves of Egypt reveal the development of the craft of bead making better the those of other civilizations due to the trade routes established in continental Europe.
From 3000-1900 BC, the Amber Routes ran from Moravia, France and Austria to Russia, England and Spain.
Ancient trade routes went to the Far East as well as Africa.
Today, there are many types of the beads including silver beads, stone beads, fire polish, and swarovsky crystal beads.
Stringing beads on beading wire is one of the most popular methods for making beaded jewellery and motifs.
This can be worn as bracelets, necklaces, and anklets.
In Japan, beads making came into fashion when Crown Princess Masako made her swarovski beads necklace by herself.
Bead art shows are held in November every year, and beads lovers publish their work.
They often become trendsetters.
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Julius Streicher (12 February 1885 - 16 October 1946) made propaganda for Nazi Germany.
He published the racist newspaper Der Stürmer.
His publishing company also sold three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 Der Giftpilz (The Poison Mushroom).
This was one of the most commonly read pieces of propaganda.
The book said that Jewish people were dangerous, just like a nice-looking but deadly mushroom.
After World War II, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials.
Streicher was born in Fleinhausen, Bavaria.
He was an elementary school teacher.
The next year, World War I started.
Streicher joined the German Army.
During the war, he won the Iron Cross.
By the time the war ended in 1918, Streicher was a lieutenant.
In 1919, Streicher was active in the Schutz- und Trutz-Bund, an anti-Semitic organization.
In 1920, he turned to the newly formed German Socialist Party (Deutschsozialistische Partei).
This political party had nearly the same ideas as the Nazi Party.
Streicher wanted to make it more anti-Semitic.
Most members of the German Socialist Party did not want this, so Streicher and his followers moved to the "German Working Community" () in 1921.
The German Working Community wanted to bring together all the different anti-Semitic groups in Germany.
In 1922, Streicher joined his followers with Adolf Hitler's.
This almost doubled the number of people in the Nazi Party.
It also made Hitler grateful to Streicher for the rest of his life.
Streicher took part in the Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923.
That same year, he started the racist newspaper Der Stürmer.
He was also the paper's editor.
Streicher used the newspaper to stir up a deep hatred of everything and everyone Jewish.
At its most popular, in 1935, about 480,000 people read Der Stürmer.
In the newspaper, Streicher argued that the Jews had helped cause the money problems Germany had during the 1920s.
These problems included unemployment, inflation, and economic depression (not having enough money going through the economy).
He claimed that Jews made white people into slaves, and were responsible for over 90 percent of the prostitutes in Germany.
After the Nazi Party was re-founded, Streicher became Gauleiter (district leader) of Franconia.
After 1933, he practically ruled the city of Nuremberg.
He was nicknamed "King of Nuremberg" and the "Beast of Franconia."
In 1940, Nazi leaders took away all of Streicher's jobs and power in the Nazi Party.
They did this because:
He caused scandals by stealing Jewish property after Kristallnacht
He spread untrue stories about Hermann Göring
He led several attacks on other district leaders
He had sex with women who were not his wife, without trying to hide it
On May 7, Germany surrendered, ending the war in Europe.
Two weeks later, on May 23, Streicher was captured by the Americans.
Just days before he was arrested, he married his former secretary, Adele Tappe.
His first wife, Kunigunde Streicher, had died in 1943 after 30 years of marriage.
Trial and execution
Julius Streicher was found guilty of crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial.
He was sentenced to death on October 1, 1946.
Streicher was not a member of the military during World War II.
He also was not part of planning the Holocaust, the invasion of Poland, or the Soviet invasion.
But because he encouraged so much support for the hatred and extermination of Jews, the prosecutors decided to try him for crimes against humanity.
Streicher's last words on October 16, 1946, were "Heil Hitler," and "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day!"
He is also reported to have cried out "Purim Fest 1946!"
He thought that Jews would start a new holiday on the date that he and his fellow Nazis were hanged, just as they had started Purim to mark the execution of Haman.
Streicher's execution did not go as planned.
Most eyewitnesses say that he died by slow strangulation rather than by a quick broken neck.
This happened to other Nazis too.
It happened because of the type of hanging used at Nuremberg.
The executioner may have eventually had to kill Streicher, who was still groaning and swinging on the rope some time after he was hanged.
Spiegel TV short biography (German)
Caricatures from Der Stürmer
Der Giftpilz ("The Poison Mushroom")
Hanging Nazi war criminals  Article on Streicher's controversial execution
The Execution of Nazi War Criminals  Primary account of the Nuremberg executions by INS reporter Kingsbury Smith
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Hiroko Akutu - vocals (born July 24, 1984)
Mitsuyuki Miyake - MC (born October 2, 1980)
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It is the capital of the district of Brugg.
Since 2010, Umiken has been part of the city.
On 1 January 2020 the municipality of Schinznach-Bad merged into Brugg.
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San Ignacio de Sabaneta is a city and municipality in northwestern Dominican Republic.
It is the main city of the Santiago Rodríguez province.
It is usually called only Sabaneta or Santiago Rodríguez.
The town was founded in 1844 by Santiago Rodríguez and others in a small savanna (Sabaneta means a "small savanna") north of the Cordillera Central mountain range.
In 1854,  the town was elevated to the category Military Post and in 1858 it became a municipality of the Santiago province.
San Ignacio de Sabaneta was the centre of the fight against the Spanish soldiers during the first period of the Restoration War (1863-1865).
When in 1879 Monte Cristi became a province, San Ignacio de Sabaneta was made a municipality of that new province.
When the new province of Santiago Rodríguez was created in 1948, San Ignacio de Sabaneta was made the head municipality of the province.
The city had, in , a total population of 34,540: 17,935 men and 16,605 women.
San Ignacio de Sabaneta is on the northern side of the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain range") and has a total area of , about  of the total area of the province of Santiago Rodríguez.
The city is an elevation of , and at  to the northwest of Santo Domingo.
The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of rainfall, followed by October with .
San Ignacio de Sabaneta is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is .
The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of .
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121 Hermione is a very big asteroid of the dark C spectral type, orbiting in the Cybele group in the farther part of the main belt.
As a C-type, it is probably made of carbonate.
Hermione was found by J. C. Watson on May 12, 1872, and named after Hermione, daughter of Menelaus and Helen in Greek mythology.
Hermione is a Cybele asteroid and orbits beyond most of the main belt asteroids.
The asteroid has an odd shape, as evidenced by adaptive optics images, the first of which were taken in December 2003, with the Keck telescope.
Of many proposed shape models that agreed with the images, a "snowman"-like shape was found to best fit the seen precession rate of Hermione's moon.
Observation of the moon's orbit has made possible a correct determination of Hermione's mass.
For the best-fit "snowman" model, the density is found to be 1.8 ± 0.2 g/cm³. This gives a porosity of the order of 20%.
This could be because the main asteroids are fractured solid bodies, but not a rubble pile (an asteroid that has been broken up by a collision and pulled back together by gravity).
Moon (S/2002 (121) 1)
A moon of Hermione was found in 2002 with the Keck II telescope.
The moon is currently called S/2002 (121) 1.
It has not yet been officially named, but the name "LaFayette" has been suggested by a group of astronomers.
This is after the ship used in secret by the Marquis de Lafayette to reach America to help the Americans during the American Revolutionary War.
121 Hermione and S/2002 (121) 1, orbit data website maintained by F. Marchis.
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Data on (121) Hermione from Johnston's archive (maintained by W. R. Johnston)
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It comes from the name Hermes, the Greek messenger god.
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Ennetbaden is a municipality of the district Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
Raymond Toro, born on July 15, 1977 in Kearny, New Jersey.
Toro is the lead guitarist and one of two backup vocalists for My Chemical Romance.
He plays Gibson Les Paul guitars with Seymour Duncan pickups through Marshall amplifiers.
He helped form the band in 2001 after reconnecting with frontman Gerard Way and drummer Matt Pelissier.
When he was younger he enjoyed the music of Queen,  Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer and he cites Brian May and Randy Rhoads as large influences on his playing.
Toro has said that he grew up listening to his brothers rock albums and has always wanted to play the drums, though he sticks to guitar with My Chemical Romance.
On April,13 2011, #SINGItForJapan was released as an effort to raise money for Japan after the tsunami.
This project was started when Toro was inspired by kind words from their fans, and he went on to arrange much of the instruments to create a sound that closely emulated traditional Japanese music.
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Belleville is a Township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 35,928.
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Kearny (pronounced ) is a town in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.
It was named after Civil War general Philip Kearny.
As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 40,513.
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Frank Anthony Thomas "Frank" Iero, Jr. (born October 31, 1981) is the youngest member of the band My Chemical Romance.
He was born in Belleville, New Jersey and attended Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington.
He attended Rutgers University on scholarship but then dropped out for the band after he felt they were beginning to get somewhere.
Iero is a rhythm guitarist and is one of the two backup vocalists for the
alternative rock band My Chemical Romance.
He was also in other bands such as Leathermouth, Pencey Prep, Death Spells, Frank Iero and the Celebration, Frank Iero and the Patience, and Frank Iero and the Future Violents.
Michael James Way (born September 10, 1980) is an American musician.
He is the bass guitarist for the rock band My Chemical Romance.
Way is the younger brother of the band's singer Gerard Way.
He is from Belleville, New Jersey.
Way grew up with his brother Gerard and their parents Donald and Donna Way (nee Rush).
Mikey Way joined My Chemical Romance in 2001.
The other members of the band were his older brother and singer, Gerard Way, drummer Matt Pelissier, and lead guitarist Ray Toro.
He is most notable for giving the band its name from an Irvine Welsh novel he read while working at a Barnes and Noble.
The novel was "Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance."
After several weeks on their first tour, Mikey left college to play with the band full time.
He has always been a main member of My Chemical Romance, but he left the band for a short time in early 2007.
This was shortly after his marriage to Alicia Simmons.
He was replaced by Matt Cortez on that tour.
He rejoined the band later that year.
Way was with the band for the rest of the time, until the band broke up on March 22, 2013, but as of October 31, 2019, he is in the band as of the reunion
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ENIAC (which meant "Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer") was a computer built between 1943 and 1946.
It was designed by two people called John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.
The machine was built out of nearly 17,500 vacuum tubes, 7,200 diodes and many miles of wire.
It took up  of space, which is the size of a large room.
The history of computers is complex, and many machines have been identified as the "first computer".
ENIAC's claim is based on the fact that it was more programmable than previous ones.
Because the computer was built out of vacuum tubes, it often broke.
This meant that someone had to find the failed tube (which was not an easy job), take the bad tube out and put a working tube in.
Making programs for the computer was difficult.
Making the computer ready for one single program could take many days or even weeks.
This was because the programming had to be done by pulling wires from one place to another.
This was not hard for small programs, but if a large program was wanted, it was very hard work.
Programming by pulling wires was used until 1948, when a special type of memory was added (called Read Only Memory (ROM), because the computer could read it but not write it).
After that, programming was done by using switches, which only took hours instead of days.
The ENIAC was first designed to print firing tables for U.S Army artillery, but the war ended before the machine was completed.
Instead, its first real job (not test) was to calculate how neutrons would go through various materials.
This was needed in making a hydrogen bomb.
ENIAC took 70 hours to work out pi to 2000 decimal places.
A modern PC with a CPU of the size of 2x2 cm is much faster than ENIAC, which used up a whole room of space.
For an example, a modern PC can work out a million (1,000,000) decimal places of pi in about ten seconds.
ENIAC was shut down forever on October 2, 1955.
Now, only about 10 panels of the 40 exist.
Although the original is shut down, programs written for the ENIAC can still be run on a modern computer using an emulator.
The National Democratic Party () is a far-right political party in Germany.
It is usually just called the NPD.