the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Homelessness, Current information on U.S. homelessness written by The Rev. Chuck Currie, former National Coalition for the Homeless board member.
Homelessness in Europe FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless is an umbrella of not-for-profit organisations which participate in or contribute to the fight against homelessness in Europe.
Homelessness in Spain News, agenda, documents, multimedia and other info about the homeless people in Spain.
News Positive media coverage of homeless man, a former radio announcer, Ted Williams, who found job offers after being re-discovered while homeless in January 2011, and called "the man with the golden voice".
Invisible People a YouTube profile mostly consisting of interviews with homeless people.
Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist.
He draws and writes horror stories.
Some of the books he has written are: Hino Horror, Panorama of Hell, and Hell Baby.
He has also made and been in horror movies.
These 13 municipalities belong to Salland region:
Deventer (also part of IJsselvallei region)
Hellendoorn (small part in Twente region)
Kampen (also part of IJsselvallei and Kop van Overijssel regions)
Olst-Wijhe (also part of IJsselvallei region)
Rijssen-Holten (partially in Twente)
Staphorst (also part of Kop van Overijssel region)
Twenterand (partially in Twente)
Zwartewaterland (also part of Kop van Overijssel region)
Zwolle (also part of IJsselvallei region)
Kop van Overijssel
Salland Natuurlijk Gastvrij, pages of the Salland Board of Tourism (in Dutch)
Isengard, a fictional place in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
Isengard (Swedish band)
A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Under A Funeral Moon
Ravishing Grimness
Plaguevielder
The Cult Is Alive
Dark Thrones and Black Flags
Circle the Wagons
Arctic Thunder
Old Star
Eternal Hails......
The Minutemen were a very well known American hardcore punk band from the 1980s.
The people in the band were D. Boon on guitar, Mike Watt on bass guitar and George Hurley on drums.
The Minutemen were formed in January of 1980 and began to record music that same year.
They gave to the public their first EP, called Paranoid Time, that year.
Over the next five years, the Minutemen went on many music playing trips and made many albums.
Some of their most well kown albums are What Makes a Man Start Fires?
and Double Nickels on the Dime.
The band was forced to split in 1985 due to the death of D. Boon.
Boon was killed in a car crash when his girlfriend fell asleep at the wheel.
After Boon's death, Watt and Hurley formed the band fIREHOSE with Minutemen fan Ed Crawford.
fIREHOSE played until 1994 when they broke up.
Since the breakup of fIREHOSE, Mike Watt has played in several bands and also his own solo career.
Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ˤAmmurāpi, meaning "the kinsman is a healer," from ˤAmmu, meaning "paternal kinsman", and Rāpi, meaning "healer"), was the sixth king of Babylon from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
He became king after his father abdicated, and was the first ruler of Babylonia.
By winning wars against other kingdoms in Mesopotamia, Hammurabi created a large Babylonian empire.
However, his son Samsu-iluna and later Babylonian rulers lost much of the land he had gained.
Hammurabi is most famous for his laws, which are known as the Hammurabi's Code.
Hammurabi's Code was one of the first written codes of law in history.
Hammurabi became king of Babylon in around 1792 BC, when his father Sin-Muballit abdicated.
Babylon was one of many small independent cities in ancient Mesopotamia.
These cities often fought each other for control of land.
Babylon was already one of the more powerful cities when Hammurabi became king.
Earlier kings of Babylon had taken over the nearby city-states of Borsippa, Kish, and Sippar.
Hammurabi did not fight any important wars in the early part of his reign.
He instead improved the buildings of Babylon.
He built taller city walls to make the city more difficult to attack, and expanded the temples.
In around 1771 BC, the kingdom of Elam attacked Mesopotamia from the east.
Elam invaded Eshnunna, a city-state to the north-east of Babylon, and destroyed its cities.
It also tried to start a war between Babylon and Larsa, a city in southern Mesopotamia.
However, Hammurabi instead made an alliance with Larsa against Elam.
Hammurabi defeated Elam, but felt that Larsa had not given him enough help.
He therefore attacked Larsa.
Babylon had entirely conquered southern Mesopotamia by c. 1763 BC.
Hammurabi's allies in northern Mesopotamia had sent their armies to the south to help Babylon.
This caused unrest in the northern area.
Hammurabi therefore returned north, stopping the unrest, and defeating Eshnunna.
He then attacked and conquered the remaining cities in northern Mesopotamia, including Babylon's former ally Mari.
It is possible that Mari surrendered to Babylon without any fighting happening.
After this, Hammurabi was in control of most of Mesopotamia.
Only Aleppo and Qatna, two western cities in modern Syria remained independent.
When Hammurabi died in c. 1750 BC, his son Samsu-iluna became king.
Double Nickels on the Dime is a hardcore punk album made by the Minutemen.
The album was recorded in 1984 and was given to the public in the same year.
The album is very long and has 43 songs.
It is thought to be a very good album and one of the best of the genre.
Song List
D.'s Car Jam/Anxious Mofo
Theatre Is the Life of You
It's Expected I'm Gone
#1 Hit Song
Two Beads at the End
Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
Don't Look Now (Song was first by Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Shit from an Old Notebook
Nature Without Man
One Reporter's Opinion
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
Maybe Partying Will Help
Toadies
The Big Foist
God Bows to Math
The Glory of Man
Take 5, D.
My Heart and the Real World
History Lesson, Pt.
You Need the Glory
The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
Themselves
Please Don't Be Gentle With Me
Nothing Indeed
No Exchange
There Ain't Shit on T.V. Tonight
This Ain't No Picnic
Untitled Song for Latin America
Jesus and Tequila
Storm in My House
Martin's Story
Doctor Wu (Song was first by Steely Dan)
The World According to Nouns
Three Car Jam
Timothy Zachery Mosley, also known as Timbaland, (born March 10, 1972) is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, record executive, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ.
He is from Norfolk, Virginia.
Timbaland owns his own record label, Mosley Music Group, which is under Universal Music Group.
Timbaland has also taught and nurtured other record producers like Danja, Polow da Don, Ryan Tedder and Jim Beanz.
As featured performer
Mosley Music Group site
Rap musicians from Virginia
Singers from Virginia
The Melvins are an American rock band.
They are from the city of Aberdeen, Washington.
The only members who have been in the band for a long time are Buzz "King Buzzo" Osborne who plays guitar and Dale Crover who plays drums.
Coady Willis who plays drums (in addition to Dale) and Jared Warren who plays bass guitar are also currently in the band.
A variety of terms have been used to describe their style of music, including 'sludge metal', 'grunge', and 'stoner rock'.
Musical groups from Washington
March 16 - Edward, the Black Prince is crowned Duke of Cornwall.
The Hundred Years' War (c. 1337–1453) begins between France and England.
Philip VI of France confiscates Aquitaine.
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1410)
January 8 - Giotto di Bondone, Italian Painter (b. 1267)
June 7 - William III, Count of Hainaut
June 25 - Frederick III of Sicily (b. 1272)
Mansa Musa, 14th century King of the Malinese Empire
Also see :Category:1337 deaths .
A birth name is the family name someone has when he or she is born, or at least from the time he or she is a child.
This term can be used by a man or a woman who changes a name later in life for any reason.
A maiden name is the family name—usually the birth name—a woman has before she marries.
A married name is the family name taken by a married person at the time of the marriage.
The most common example is when a woman takes the family name of her spouse at the time of marriage.
But sometimes a man changes his name at marriage.
Also, sometimes both people change their names, such as to a hyphenated or other mixed name.
Sometimes the words "né" (for a man) or "née" (for a woman) are used to show a birth name or maiden name.
These words mean "born", and are borrowedv.2 from French.
A person who stalks
The name of a novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
The novel was called Roadside Picnic and was written in 1972.
A short story based on the novel, called Stalker
A 1979 movie by Andrei Tarkovsky, called Stalker based on the novel Roadside Picnic
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, a computer game
Tom Whedon is an American television writer.
He has written for many series, for example, Benson, Alice and The Golden Girls.
Whedon also wrote for the children's series The Electric Company.
He is the father of Deadwood script writer Zack Whedon.
Whedon is also the father of writer/producer/director Joss Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly.
Zack Whedon (born August 14, 1979) is an American television writer.
He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 with a movie degree.
Whedon has written for the HBO series Deadwood.
He is the son of writer Tom Whedon and the brother of writer-producer-director Joss Whedon.
Whedon has also done work on his brother's series Angel as well as collaborated with his brother on the internet only serial Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog.
He was a writer for the J.J. Abrams show Fringe.
Langnau im Emmental ('Langnau in the Emmental') is a small village in the Emmental, in the canton of Bern.
It is by the river Ilfis between the cities of Bern and Luzern.
It has a population of about 8800 people.
Most of the people of the village work in the building trades.
Langnau has an Ice hockey Club, called the SCL Tigers.
They have their home stadium in Langnau.
Official website of Langnau
Municipalities of Bern
Muri bei Bern is a township in Switzerland near Bern.
In December 2005, it had a population of 12458 people.
The township Muri is two small towns: Muri and Gümligen
Muri has been populated since the time of the Romans, but it has only had the name Muri since 1180.
It started as a little township with a little castle and some farmhouses.
Between the 13th and 15th century it became a very rich township.
The Aare flows through Muri
The castle of Muri
The Villa Mettlen (a villa that is build from a rich man and now it is a music school)
The church Muri
The Auguetbrücke (an old bridge over the Aare)
In Muri it has two big woods; The Hüendli-Wald and the Dentenberg-Wald.
Around the Aare it has also a little woods.
All together it has 150 hectares of woods, 190 hectares of grassland and 339 hectares of building land.
Also Muri has a total area of 760 hectares.
is a video game in The Legend of Zelda group of games.
The game is both for the Nintendo GameCube and for the Wii.
The game is played like most of the past Zelda games, but in this game a player can also change into a wolf using the magic power of Midna, a Twili who helps the player defeat Zant, a crazy Twili under the influence of Ganondorf, who he believed to be a dark god.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was liked by many people and sold more than a million copies.
Players still get the Master Sword like in many other Zelda games.
The Official Nintendo Magazine said it was the 16th best Nintendo game of all time.
A remake for the Wii U was released in March 2016 known as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD.
Twilight Princess
is the first video game in The Legend of Zelda series of games.
The game was made by a Japanese man named Shigeru Miyamoto.
It was sold to stores by Nintendo in 1986.
The game was sold to be played on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
In the game the player plays as a hero named Link.
Link must save Princess Zelda from a powerful person named Ganon.
It was the first game to let the player continue where they last played the game after they had turned the game off.
The game also let the player go wherever they wanted to go at any time in the game's world.
Many more Zelda games were made because of it.
The Legend of Zelda games
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, known in Japan as  is the tenth game in The Legend of Zelda group of games.
It was made for the Nintendo GameCube and was sold in stores in the year 2002 in Japan and the year 2003 in America.
The game takes place on a big ocean with a few small islands that the player can sail to on a boat.
The game is similar to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
The game is the first Cel-shaded Legend of Zelda game, which means the game looks like a cartoon.
The game's story takes place hundreds of years after The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the story also continues with the game's sequels, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, both released for the Nintendo DS in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
On January 23, 2013, Nintendo announced a high definition remake of the game for the Wii U called The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD.
It was released in North America on September 20, 2013, in Japan on September 26, 2013, in Europe on October 4, 2013, and in Australia on October 5, 2013.
It includes an updated art style and Miiverse support.
2013 video games
Wind Waker
The Deadliest Catch is a reality television series on the Discovery Channel, about Alaskan king crab fishing.
The series shows people fishing for crabs in the Bering Sea near Alaska.
The series is named "Deadliest Catch" because the crew of these boats are at a high risk of death or injury due to the dangerous places and weather of the sea during the seasons they fish, earning the title of most dangerous job in the world.
American reality television series
Garage rock is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that was popular in the mid-1960s in the United States,  Canada, and other countries.
It has experienced several more recent revivals.
In the beginning, it was not yet defined as a musical genre.
Attention to the sound from rock critics in the early 1970s helped it become appreciated as a genre.
It is called "garage rock" because many of the groups that played it were made up of young amateurs, often in high school and college, who sometimes rehearsed in their families' garages.
Some of the bands were older and professional.
The groups in this genre are often referred to as "garage bands".
The style, which led up to psychedelic rock, often had simple lyrics and sometimes used guitars distorted through a device called a fuzzbox.
Surf rock was an early influence.
Later the Beatles and the beat groups of the British Invasion became popular.
This led to many aspiring musicians to form bands in the United States and elsewhere between 1963 and 1968.
Some bands produced regional hits, and a few even had national chart hits.
In the early 1970s certain critics began to refer to the style as "punk rock", which made it the first form of music to use that name.
It is sometimes called "garage punk", "protopunk", or "'60s punk" to set it apart from the more well-known punk rock movement that came later in 1970s.
The garage rock style has been revived several times in recent decades and continues to influence many modern groups who prefer a "back to basics" and "do it yourself" musical approach.
'60s Garage Bands – histories of local and regional bands of the 1960s
Beyond the Beat Generation – interviews with former members of 1960s garage bands
Everett True's Australian Garage Rock Primer - about Australian garage rock bands of the 1960s and later
G45 Central  - website and blog with discussions about garage rock
Garage Hangover – garage bands of the 1960s by state, province and country
GS  - about the 'group sounds' garage/beat boom in Japan
It's Psychedelic Baby - articles, interviews, and reviews of 1960s psychedelic and garage acts
Start - Website covering as many as 1400 Dutch 'Nederbeat' bands of the 1960s (in both Dutch and English)
Ugly Things - magazine with information on garage rock and vintage from the 1960s and other eras
Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music.
It was very popular in the 1960s when it started, and still has many fans today.
It was first made in San Francisco, but it also was made in other cities such as New York City, and in other countries including England.
Psychedelic rock songs sometimes have lyrics describing the effects of drugs, if any words at all.
Songs were sometimes very long (10-15 minutes), and much of this time might be taken up by a solo, like a drum solo or a guitar solo.
Some major groups that made psychedelic rock included: The Beatles, The Doors, The Byrds, The Grateful Dead, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and The Animals.
Psychedelic rock was popular music for listening to when getting high with hashish or LSD, or both.
During Grateful Dead concerts, some people actually sat inside the huge speakers that the Grateful Dead brought to their concerts.
A doppelgänger or a doppelganger is a German word used in English to talk about any double or someone who looks exactly like another person — most commonly an "evil twin".
In some folklore, seeing another family or friend's doppelganger means they will have an illness, or that they are in danger.
Seeing your own doppelganger means you will most likely die.
Some myths offer explanations that focus on magic, where the doppelganger is created by some kind of curse or through magic.
These doppelgängers are usually, but not always, bad in some way.
Doppelgängers can sometimes be seen in books, movies, and other fiction as part of their stories.
Absurd is a national socialistic black metal band from Germany.
The band was formed in 1992.
Frontman of this band is Neo Nazi and former Satanist Hendrik Möbus
The band became notable after its (original) members murdered the 15-year-old Sandro Beyer in 1993.
These members are no longer in the band.
It is believed that Beyer knew of a relationship between Schauseil's and a married woman.
She had been spreading rumors about this and other things the band was doing.
On 29 April in Sondershausen, Möbus, Schauseil, and Kirchner met with Beyer.
The strangled him there with an electrical cord.
Kirchner was reported as saying: “Oh shit—now I’ve completely ruined my life.”
Schauseil said he heard voices in his head saying “Kuster Maier”.
This made no sense but was interpreted by him as “töte Beyer” (‘kill Beyer’).
Eternal Winter (1992)
God's Death (1992)
Death from the Forest (1993)
Sadness (1993)
Out of the Dungeon (1994)
Ubungsraum (1994)
Thuringian Pagan Madness (1995)
Sonnenritter (1999)
Facta Loquuntur (No Colours, 1996)
Werwolfthron (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2001)
Totenlieder (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2003)
Blutgericht (Nebelfee Klangwerke 2005)
Der Fünfzehnjährige Krieg (Darker Than Black / Nebelklang, 2008)
Das neue Blutgericht (2018)
EPs/splits
God's Death / Sadness (self-released, 1994)
Totenburg / Die Eiche split with Heldentum (Burznazg / Silencelike Death, 1997)
Asgardsrei EP (IG Farben, 1999)
Wolfskrieger/Galdur Vikodlaks split with Pantheon (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2002)
Raubritter (EP) EP (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2004)
Ein kleiner Vorgeschmack single (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2005)
Grimmige Volksmusik EP (Nebelfee Klangwerke, 2005)
Raubritter / Grimmige Volksmusik (Darker Than Black, 2007)
Mein schwarzer schwuler Liebhaber EP (Pink triangle records, 2008)
Weltenfeind split with Grand Belial's Key and Sigrblot (WTC, 2008)
German heavy metal bands
Nokturnal Mortum is a pagan black metal band from Ukraine.
It is one of the major black metal bands from eastern Europe, along with Graveland and Lucifugum.
Knjaz Varggoth - vocals, guitars
Saturious - keyboard
Vrolok - bass
Astargh - guitars
Odalv - drums
Sataroth - keyboard
Karpath - guitars
Munruthel - drums
Alzeth - Guitar
Wortherax - Guitar
Xaarquath - bass
Lunar Poetry - 1996 (re-released several times in different formats)
Goat Horns - 1997
To The Gates Of Blasphemous Fire - 1998
NeChrist - 1999
Weltanschauung - 2005 (aka Mirovozzrenie featuring Russian and Ukrainian lyrics)
The Voice Of Steel - 2009
Істина 2017
Return Of The Vampire Lord - 1997 (re-released with Marble Moon on CD in 2003)
Marble Moon - 1997 (re-released with Return Of The Vampire Lord on CD in 2003)
The Taste Of Victory - 2003
Eastern Hammer - 2007 (4 way split with Graveland, North, and Temnozor featuring a new version of Kolyada)
Orathania / Kolyada - 2017
Twilightfall - 1995 (re-released on CD in 2003)
Black Clouds Over Slavonic Lands - 1995 (re-released as bonus tracks on 2005 CD re-release of Lunar Poetry)
Eleven Years Among The Sheep - 2004 (compilation of old, unreleased, demo, and Suppuration & Crystalline Darkness songs)
http://www.oriana-music.com
Rockdetector.com Nokturnal Mortum entry
Ukrainian entertainers
Repo Man is a 1984 comedy/science fiction movie starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton.
It was written and directed by Alex Cox.
The movie is about the life of a repo man, a person who steals cars legally from people who do not pay for them.
The movie is well regarded for several reasons.
First, it has talk and events that are both funny and strange.
The music played in the movie is also a very good collection of punk rock music that was popular at the time.
Also, the movie is not similar to most other movies that were made at the same time.
Reginald Wayne Miller (August 24, 1965) is a retired American basketball player.
Miller was known for being a great jump shooter during his career.
He played his entire career for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He is from Riverside, California.
Basketball players from California
Indiana Pacers players
People from Riverside, California
An altarpiece is a work of art that has been made to go above the altar in a Christian church.
An altarpiece can be a painting, or it can be carved from wood or stone.
Some altarpieces have both paintings and sculptures.
There are three most common subjects, The Virgin Mary and Christ Child, Jesus crucified and Christ in Glory.
These are three very important parts of Christian belief.
Altars of The Virgin Mary and Christ Child were made to remind Christians that God came to Earth as Jesus, in the form of an ordinary helpless little baby, to grow up among people.
These altarpieces are to remind Christians of the Christmas story.
Altarpieces of Jesus on the cross were made to remind Christians that Jesus, who was pure and did not sin, died a horrible death like a robber and murderer so that Christians could be forgiven.
These altarpieces are to remind Christians of the Easter story.
Altarpieces that show Jesus sitting on a throne in Heaven were made to remind Christians that they need to put their lives right and turn to God because one day they will see him on his throne.
These altarpieces are to remind Christians that they never know when their life might end and they should live every day in a way that pleases God.
Saints and stories
The other figures are usually saints.
They might be shown standing around a throne where the Virgin Mary sits with Baby Jesus on her knee.
Or they might be painted on separate pieces that are joined to the middle part of the altarpiece.
These saints do not have to be people who were alive at the same time as Mary.
They are more often the patron saint of the church or the favourites saints of the person who paid for the altarpiece.
Smaller rectangular parts of the altarpiece often have stories painted in them.
They may be stories from the Bible telling the life of Jesus, or they might tell the life of a saint.
An altarpiece can be as small as a tiny painting put on the wall above a table in someone's home.
Or it can be so big that it fills the wall of a huge cathedral.
The word is usually used for artworks which are quite big.
A small painting may be called a Holy Picture or an Icon.
The Isenheim Altarpiece in Colmar, France was painted by a German artist, Matthias Grunewald.
At the centre is a terrifying and horribly real scene of Jesus on the Cross.
Other scenes show the joy of Jesus' birth and the glory of him rising from the grave.
The Ghent Altarpiece in Ghent Cathedral, Belgium, is a wonderful painted polytych.
This means it is in lots of pieces which are hinged and can be closed.
It shows Christ in Glory and has many beautiful figures which include Adam and Eve.
It was painted by Jan and Hubert van Eyck.
The Great Screen of Winchester Cathedral is a huge carved altarpiece made to replace an ancient one that was ruined in the 1600s.
It has Christ on the Cross at the centre, surrounded by rows of carved saints.
There is another altarpiece like this in Southwark Cathedral, London.
The Maesta painted by Duccio which is no longer in Siena Cathedral in Italy but is now in the cathedral's museum.
This altarpiece has the Virgin and Child at the centre, surrounded by rows of saints.
On the back were many small pictures telling the story of Jesus, but they have all been taken off and are shown separately.
The Transparente in Toledo Cathedral in Spain is an amazing sight.
It is a huge altarpiece caved of white marble with gold decoration.
In the roof above it, there is a hidden window which lets bright light shine in to light it up.
The wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a common rodent.
It is also known as the long-tailed field mouse, field mouse, common field mouse, and European wood mouse.
Almost entirely nocturnal, field mice burrow extensively, digging a series of chambers and runs.
Their usual habitat is woodlands, fields and hedgerows, although they are also found in open grassland.
The geographical isolation and recent glacial history of Shetland have resulted in a depleted mammalian fauna.
The field mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus L.), along with the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout) and the house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus Schwartz & Schwartz), are one of only three recorded types of rodent present on the island.
Based largely on moprphological studies of epigenetic variations, the source of the original founding population has been attributed to Norway with the most obvious date of introduction being presumed to be around the 9th century AD with the arrival of the Vikings.
However, archaeological evidence now suggests that this species was present during the Middle Iron Age (around 200 BC - AD 400), and one theory proposes that Apodemus was in fact introduced from Orkney where a population had existed since at the least the Bronze Age.[3]
Field mouse
They have a solid brown coat with a white belly as shown in the picture.
For their size, they have very large eyes and ears.
They grow to roughly 10 cm long and weigh 30 grams when full grown.
They are omnivorous and eat a range of seeds, worms, berries, small insects and carrion.
In deciduous woodland they will eat acorns and sycamore seeds for the winter, buds in spring, insects and seeds in summer and berries and fungi in autumn.
However, they will eat their own tail if faced with starvation.
They are prey to many animals, including owls and foxes and therefore have a short life, normally living for 6 to 12 months.
However, in captivity they can live for over 20 months.
They live in any place where it can find food or shelter but traditionally live in hedgerows, forests and grass lands.
They make their nests wherever it is warm and there is cover.
This means that they will usually nest underground but will nest in other warm environments.
The Field mouse has been proven to be extremely intelligent.
If given time, it will think out a strategy before doing something.
They have extremely small but sharp claws, which they use to dig into houses to scavenge food.
They assess a situation before doing anything.
They will judge whether it is too risky, dangerous or useless and they often look out for each other.
However, if they are being chased, they will dart undercover or into small nooks and crannies.
^ Goaman, K., Amery, H. (1983).
Mysteries & Marvels of the Animal World: pg.15
^ Schlitter & Van der Straeten (2004).
Apodemus sylvaticus.
IUCN 2006.
Retrieved on 11 May 2006.
Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
^ Nicholson, R.A., Barber, P., and Bond, J.M. (2005).
New Evidence for the Date of Introduction of the House Mouse, Mus musculus domesticus Schwartz & Schwartz, and the Field Mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus (L.) to Shetland.
Environmental Archaeology 10 (2): 143-151
It was written on a stele (a large stone monument), and put in a public place where everyone could see it.
The stele was later captured by the Elamites and taken to their capital, Susa.
It was found there again in 1901, and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The code of Hammurabi had 282 laws written by scribes on 12 tablets.
Unlike earlier laws, it was written in Akkadian, the daily language of Babylonia.
The code is an early example of a law regulating a government: a kind of primitive constitution.
The code is also one of the earliest examples of the "presumption of innocence" (innocent until proven otherwise).
It suggests that both the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.
Nearly half the Code deals with contracts.
It sets the wages to be paid to an ox driver or a surgeon.
Other passages set the liability of a builder for a house that collapses, for example, or property that is damaged while left in the care of another.
An eye for an eye
For each crime, a specific punishment is listed.
Many of them look harsh to people now.
The punishments included death, cutting off a body part, and the use of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" ideas.
The penalties of Hammurabi's laws may seem cruel to modern readers, but the fact that he put into writing the laws of his kingdom is considered an important step forward in the growth of civilization.
If any one steal the property of a temple or of the court, he shall be put to death, and also the one who receives the stolen thing from him shall be put to death. (
If a man takes a woman to marry, but have no sexual intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him. (
If a son strike[s] his father, his hands shall be cut off. (
If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. (
If he break another man's bone, his bone shall be broken. (
If he put out the eye of a freed man, or break the bone of a freed man, he shall pay one gold mina. (
If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of the slave's value. (
If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out. (
Clear and detailed images and description in French from the Louvre Museum
Media player is a word that describes computer software that can play more than one type of media (multimedia).
Media players can usually play both audio (sound) and video files.
Microsoft Windows comes with a media player already on it, Windows Media Player.
Some other media players are Quicktime, iTunes, Real Player and Winamp.
List of media players
Many media players use libraries.
The library helps you organize, or catalog, your music into categories such as genre, year, rating or other.
Good examples of media players that include media libraries are Winamp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, RealPlayer, Amarok and ALLPlayer.
Other Winamp versions are Amiamp (AmigaOS), Dosamp (MS-DOS), and Macamp (Mac OS).
Comet Borrelly is a periodic comet.
Periodic comets can only be seen from earth once every few years or decades.
It was visited by the spacecraft Deep Space 1.
Comet Borrelly was last seen from earth in September 2001 and will likely be seen again in July 2008.
A microcontroller (abbreviated MCU or µC) is a computer system on a chip that does a job.
It contains an integrated processor, memory (a small amount of RAM, program memory, or both), and programmable input/output peripherals, which are used to interact with things connected to the chip.
A microcontroller is different than a microprocessor, which only contains a CPU (the kind used in a Personal Computer).
First released in 1971 by the Intel company, microcontrollers began to become popular in their first few years.
The extremely useful Intel 8008 microprocessor was then released, but it was still impractical because of high cost for each chip.
These first microcontrollers combined different types of computer memory on one unit.
After people began to see how useful they were, micro controllers were constantly being upgraded, with people trying to find new ways to make them better.
Cost was reduced over time and by the early 2000s, microcontrollers were widely used across the world.
Microcontrollers often operate at very low speed compared to microprocessors used in smartphones and personal computers.
Clock speeds may be as little as 32 kHz, but this is useful for typical applications.
They consume very little power (milliwatts or even micro watts).
Microcontrollers are used in automatic products and devices, such as car engine systems, remote controls, machines, appliances, power tools, and toys.
These are called embedded systems.
Microcontrollers can also be found at work in solar power and energy harvesting, anti-lock braking systems in cars, and have many uses in the medical field as well.
A melodrama is a dramatic or literary work where the plot is sensational.
It appeals strongly to the emotions.
It has crude characterization.
Characters are simply-drawn, and stereotyped.
Melodrama is a portmanteau word, formed by combining the words "melody" from the Greek "melōidía", meaning "song") and "drama".
Originally it referred to the use of music in a play.
A melodrama is often a play with very simple characters: a villain, hero,  heroine, policeman, damsel in distress and an elderly person (which usually ends happily).
Melodramas were popular in the Victorian era on the stage and in novels.
In the 20th century the term came to mean bad, crude art, lacking thought.
It is rarely applied to the inclusion of music.
Skullhead was a Rock Against Communism band from Newcastle, England.
Their type of music is a blend of rock, Oi!,
and heavy metal music.
The band and lead singer, Kev Turner (known to many by the tattoo's he sports, including "Doc martin" boots on the side of his face, which appear like sideburns) were also heavily influenced by the Odinist religion, to which many of their songs refer too.
1984 establishments in the United Kingdom
Landser is a Neo-Nazi, Rock Against Communism rock band from Germany.
Because of laws in Germany against speaking badly about the people that died during the Holocaust of World War II, several members of the band were put in prison.
In March 2005, the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe upheld the prison sentence against a band member.
This was the first time that a band had been called a criminal association by the highest federal court.
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen-Cooper (born 2 May 1985) is an English pop singer and actress.
She is a daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen.
Allen was born in Hammersmith, west London to actor Keith Allen and film maker Alison Owen.
She left school when she was fifteen.
She made her first album, called Alright, Still in 2006.
It came out in the United States in early 2007.
The first single, "Smile" was No.1 in the UK.
It was the eleventh best selling single of 2006 there.
The second single was "LDN".
In 2008 she presented a talk show called Lily Allen and Friends on BBC Three.
Her most recent album, It's Not Me, It's You was released in February 2009.
It features two number one singles, "The Fear" and "Fuck You".
Four other singles were released, "Not Fair", "22", "Who'd Have Known", and "Back to the Start".
"The Fear" was the first single from the album.
It was No.1 in Israel and Belgium.
In 2009 she was in an episode of Neighbors.
In 2010 "Just Be Good to Green" was released as a single by Professor Green.
Allen sung on the song.
It reached number five in the UK Singles Chart.
In November 2013 Allen recorded a cover of Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" for the Christmas advert for John Lewis.
It reached No.1 in the UK and Ireland.
On 12 November 2013, Allen released a video for her first song that wasn't a cover version since 2009, "Hard Out Here".
It got 2.2 million views in two days.
The single reached number nine in the UK.
Her next album will be released in 2014.
A new song called "L8 CMMR" was released on the soundtrack to the second season of Girls.
On 2 March Allen's next single "Air Balloon" was released.
From 2007 to 2008 Lily dated with musician Ed Simons.
In January 2008 Allen miscarried their child at 2 months of pregnancy.
On 11 June 2011 Lily married to her boyfriend of 2 years, businessman Sam Cooper.
In November 2010, at age 25, Lily gave birth to their stillborn son.
On 25 November 2011, at age 26, Allen gave birth to their daughter, named Ethel Mary Cooper.
She gave birth to another daughter, Marnie Rose, in January 2013.
2007, Best British Single: "Smile"
2007, Best British Album: Alright, Still
2007, Best British Female
2007, Best British Breakthrough Act: "Smile"
2007, Worst Dressed (won)
2007, Best Solo Artist (Nominated)
2007, Sexiest Woman (Nominated)
2007, Best Album: Alright, Still (Nominated)
MTV Video Awards
2007, Best New Artist (Nominated)
1998 - Elizabeth (Lady in Waiting)
2006 - Alright, Still
2009 - It's Not Me, It's You
2014 - Sheezus
Lily Allen Live
Lily Allen on MTV.com
Zerah Colburn (born Cabot, Vermont, 1804; died 1839) was a child prodigy.
He became famous when he was a little boy because he could do unbelievably difficult sums very easily.
However, he wasted his talent and never became a useful mathematician.
Zerah’s father was a carpenter.
He and his wife had six children, and they had very little money.
When he was five he started to go to school.
After six weeks his father heard him doing multiplication sums.
His father asked him what 13 times 97 was.
The boy immediately said “1261”.
His father took him to Boston to show him to famous people.
They asked the boy questions: what is 1449 times 1449?
The boy said “2,099,601”.
Someone else asked him how many seconds there were in 2000 years.
He said “63,072,000,000”.
His father looked for rich people who would pay for the boy’s education.
In Boston $5000 was raised so that he did not have to be shown off in public all the time.
Nevertheless, his father took him to Europe.
In London people asked him more questions, e.g. is 4,294,967,297 a prime number?
The boy said “No, it can be divided by 641”.
People wanted the boy to explain how he did these calculations, but he could not say how he did it.
Napoleon was going to meet him, but he lost the Battle of Waterloo and was not able to make the visit.
He went to school in Paris and then in London, but by the time he was 15 people were not interested in helping him any more.
He joined a touring group of actors and got the part of Richard III in the play by Shakespeare.
He met William Rowan Hamilton who was also a prodigy and who did become a famous mathematician.
Zerah soon got fed up with mathematics and became a Methodist minister.
He taught languages at Norwich University in Vermont.
He wrote an autobiography in which he tried to explain how he did his calculations.
Famous Americans: article on him and his nephew
Account of his life
Educators from Vermont
Quedlinburg (); Low Saxon: Queddelnborg) is a city in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
22,795 people lived there in 2005.
Quedlinburg is 8 kilometers north of the Harz mountains.
A small river called Bode flows through the city.
In 1994 UNESCO added the old town Quedlinburg on the list of World Heritage Sites.
In the year 922 the name Quedlinburg was first mentioned in a paper from King Henry I the Fowler of Germany.
In the first half of the 10th century the Hungarians with their horses attacked many places all over central Europe.
King Henry built up a castle to give the farmers around a place to hide.
In 936 the king died and his body was buried on the castle hill in Quedlinburg.
His widow Matilda and his son King Otto I set up a convent for ladies.
The tasks of this convent included the commemoration of King Henry I and the education of young ladies to get better chances to get married.
This convent on the hill was dissolved in 1803.
First abbess of the ladies-convent was Matilda, the daughter of King Otto I and granddaughter of Queen Matilda.
In the valley north of that hill in 994 King Otto III founded the old town.
He was asked to do so by his aunt abbess Matilda.
This old town was used by merchants to sell and buy textiles and so it grew larger.
In the middle of the 12th century a new town was created by the abbess of the ladies-convent.
In 1330 both towns were united.
They got stronger in power and in 1477 they tried to get totally independent of the abbess.
But military troops sent by the brothers of the abbess occupied both towns.
All the citizens got under control of the abbess again.
In 1541 the Protestant Reformation reached the convent and the town and everybody changed their beliefs to the Protestant religion.
The city is 8 kilometers north of the Harz mountains around 123 meters above sea water level .
The nearby mountains reached about 180 meters above sea level.
Most of the town is on the western side of the river Bode's bank.
The town area covers around 78,15 square kilometers.
The average temperature of the year is 8,8 °C.
January and February are the coldest months of the year, with an average temperature of 0,1 °C and 0,4 °C.
July and August are the hottest months, with an average temperature of 17,8 °C (63 °F) and 17,2 °C.
The average annual rainfall is about 438 millimetres.
The rainfall occurs usually between May and September.
Rain in Quedlinburg is among the lowest in Germany, which has an annual average around 800 millimetres.
Quedlinburg has partnerships with 5 cities.
Each of the 5 boroughs also has their sister cities, sometimes called twin towns.
Private homepage (in English)
Harz Rural District
DreamWorks Pictures, officially called DW II Distribution Co., LLC, also known as DreamWorks, LLC, DreamWorks SKG, DreamWorks Studios or DW Studios, LLC, is an American movie studio.
It has made or sold more than ten movies which made more than $100 million each at the box-office.
DreamWorks began in 1994.
It was founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen (making the SKG at the bottom of the DreamWorks logo).
They own 72% of the company.
In December 2005, the founders agreed to sell the studio to Viacom.
The sale was done in February 2006.
In 2008, DreamWorks announced that it would split from Paramount.
It signed a $1.5 billion deal to make movies with India's Reliance ADA Group.
Reliance gave $325M to help recreate DreamWorks studio as its own company.
Clark Hallren led the Reliance team in making plans for the company.
The movie studio is 50% owned by Reliance.
Reliance is led by Anil Ambani.
Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City) is one of the major American movie studios that has production studios and offices at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles and Burbank.
Distribution and other corporate, administrative offices are based in New York City.
Universal is the first longest-lived studio in Hollywood (Universal's ownership partner of NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan—which distributes anime by Universal worldwide—is the oldest).
In June 1909, Laemmle started the Yankee Film Company with partners Abe and Julius Stern.
That company was quickly renamed the Independent Moving Picture Company, or IMP.
In 1910, he actively promoted Florence Lawrence, then known as the "Biograph girl", and she became one of the first film stars to be used by a studio in its marketing.
On June 8, 1912; Laemmle merged IMP with eight smaller companies to form the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, introducing the word "universal" into the organization's name.
Among them were Mark Dintinfass, Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel, and Pat Powers.
The name was later changed to Universal Pictures Company, Inc.
Following the westward trend of the industry, in 1915, Laemmle opened the world's largest motion picture production facility, Universal City Studios, on a  converted farm just over the Cahuenga Pass from Hollywood.
Other facilities
In 1926, Universal also opened a production unit in Germany, Deutsche Universal-Film AG, under the direction of Joe Pasternak.
This unit produced 3–4 movies per year until 1936, migrating to Hungary and then Austria in the face of Hitler's increasing domination of central Europe.
With movies being able to have sound (those movies were called "talkies"), these productions were made in the German language or, sometimes, Hungarian or Polish.
In the USA, Universal Pictures did not distribute any of this subsidiary's movies, but at least some of them were exhibited through other, independent, foreign-language movie distributors based in New York, without benefit of English subtitles.
Nazi persecution and a change in ownership for the parent Universal Pictures organization resulted in the dissolution of this part of the company.
The Laemmles lose control
Taking on the task of modernizing and upgrading a movie company in the depths of the Great Depression was risky, and for a time Universal slipped into receivership.
The theater chain was scrapped, but Carl, Jr. held fast to distribution, studio and production operations.
The end for the Laemmles came with a remake of Show Boat, featuring many famous people from the Broadway stage version, which began production in late 1935.
However, Carl, Jr.'s spending habits surprised company stockholders, especially after the costly failure of Sutter's Gold earlier in the year.
They would not allow production to start on Show Boat unless the Laemmles obtained a loan.
Universal was forced to seek a $750,000 production loan from the Standard Capital Corporation, pledging the Laemmle family's controlling interest in Universal as collateral.
It was the first time in Universal's 26-year history that it had borrowed money for a production.
Production problems resulted in a $300,000 overrun.
When Standard called the loan in, a cash-strapped Universal could not pay.
Show Boat was released in 1936 and is widely considered to be one of the greatest movie musicals of all time.
However, it was not enough to save the Laemmles, who were removed from the company they had founded.
MCA takes over
By the late 1950s, the motion picture business was in trouble.
The combination of the studio/theater-chain break-up and the rise of television caused the mass audience to stop visiting theaters, probably forever.
The Music Corporation of America (better known as MCA), mainly a talent agency, had also become a powerful television producer, renting space at Republic Studios for its Revue Studios subsidiary.
After a period of complete shutdown, a moribund Universal agreed to sell its (by now)  studio lot to MCA in 1958, for $11 million.
Although MCA owned the studio lot, but not Universal Pictures, it was increasingly influential on Universal's product.
The studio lot was upgraded and modernized, while MCA clients like Doris Day, Lana Turner, and Cary Grant were signed to Universal Pictures contracts.
Though Universal's movie unit did produce occasional movies, among them Airport, The Sting, American Graffiti, and a movie that restored the company's fortunes, Jaws, Universal in the 1970s was primarily a television studio.
Weekly series production was the workhorse of the company.
There would be other movies like E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park, but overall the movie business was still hit-and-miss.
In the early 1970s, Universal teamed up with Paramount Pictures to form Cinema International Corporation, which distributed movies by Paramount and Universal worldwide.
It was replaced by United International Pictures in 1991, when Walt Disney Pictures joined the fold.
Universal's library
It also owns several movies made by others, including some pre-1952 United Artists material, an Alfred Hitchcock feature originally released by Warner Bros. - Rope,  and the UK rights to most of the RKO Pictures library.
Notes on early partners
In the early years of Universal, the company absorbed an amount of small firms.
Among those early film-production studios (and their proprietors) were:
Champion Motion Picture Co., Mark Dintinfass, president
Nestor Motion Picture Company, David Horsley
The New York Motion Picture Company, Charles Baumann and Adam Kessel, proprietors
Powers Motion Picture Co., Pat Powers, president