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Runaway is a science fiction and action movie released near Christmas 1984, starring Kirstie Alley and Tom Selleck.
Alley plays former lover for a villain named Luther.
Selleck plays a police officer whose son is eventually kidnapped by the villain.
The movie tells of complex technology gone awry when permitted to dominate the lives of everybody.
Also acting in the movie is Gene Simmons from KISS.
The movie was planned as a major science fiction draw, although it was overshadowed by a low budget movie called The Terminator, which was directed by then-not well known James Cameron.
1984 science fiction movies
Movies directed by Michael Crichton
Orphans of the Storm  is a 1921 silent movie.
It stars sisters Dorothy and Lillian Gish.
The movie is about two sisters (one blind) who are separated during the turmoil of the French Revolution.
They are reunited after much tribulation.
Griffith used historical events to comment on contemporary events.
In this case, he used the French Revolution to comment upon the rise of Bolshevism.
The movie is about class conflict.
It speaks for inter-class understanding and against destructive hatred.
This was the last Griffith movie to star the Gish sisters.
It is often thought to be Griffith's last big moneymaker.
The movie is a remake of the lost The Two Orphans (1915) starring Theda Bara.
1921 movies
Movies directed by D. W. Griffith
The Terminator is an American action-science fiction movie.
It is set in Los Angeles, California and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, and Linda Hamilton.
This movie was directed by James Cameron and was released on October 26, 1984 in the United States by Orion Pictures.
Its budget was $6.4 million and it grossed $78.3 million at the box office.
It was followed by sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Salvation, Terminator Genisys and Terminator: Dark Fate.
In 1984 Los Angeles, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator arrives from 2029 and steals guns and clothes.
Shortly afterwards, Kyle Reese, a human soldier, also arrives.
He steals clothes from a homeless man and evades the police.
The Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses he finds in the telephone directory.
He tracks the third Sarah Connor to a nightclub, but Kyle rescues her.
The two steal a car and escape with the Terminator pursuing them in a police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Kyle explains to Sarah that an artificial intelligence defense network, known as Skynet, will become self-aware in the near future and initiate a nuclear holocaust.
Sarah's future son John will rally the survivors and lead a resistance movement against Skynet and its army of machines.
With the Resistance on the verge of victory, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah before John is born, to prevent the formation of the Resistance.
The Terminator is an efficient killing machine with a powerful metal endoskeleton and an external layer of living tissue that makes him appear human.
Kyle and Sarah are apprehended by the police after another encounter with the Terminator.
Criminal psychologist Dr. Silberman concludes that Kyle is paranoid and delusional.
The Terminator repairs his body and attacks the police station, killing many police officers in his attempt to locate Sarah.
Kyle and Sarah escape and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble pipe bombs and plan their next move.
Kyle admits that he has been in love with Sarah since John gave him a photograph of her, and they have sex.
The Terminator discovers their location, and they attempt to escape in a pickup truck.
In the ensuing chase, Kyle is wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator.
Enraged‚ Sarah knocks the Terminator off his motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over.
The Terminator hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Kyle slides a pipe bomb onto the tanker, causing an explosion that burns the flesh from the Terminator's exoskeleton.
It pursues them to a factory, where Kyle activates machinery to confuse the Terminator.
He jams his final pipe bomb into the Terminator's abdomen, blowing the Terminator apart, injuring Sarah, and killing Kyle.
She breaks free and lures it into a hydraulic press, crushing it.
Months later, a pregnant Sarah is traveling through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to her unborn son, John.
She debates whether to tell him that Kyle is his father.
At a gas station, a boy takes a Polaroid photograph of her which she purchases—the same photograph that John will eventually give to Kyle.
Little House in the Big Woods is a children's novel.
It was written by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
It was published in 1932.
It is the first book in Wilder's Little House series.
The book and the series are based on Wilder's memories of growing up near Pepin, Wisconsin in the 19th century.
is a Japanese town in Kōchi Prefecture on the Pacific coastline of the island of Shikoku.
Kuroshio town website
Moutiers-au-Perche is a commune in the Orne département, lower Normandy.
This is a village in the province of Perche.
There are 525 people.
The surface is .
The altitude is .
There is a Château de Guilbault built at the time of the Directoire.
There is a park with an old bridge also.
Gacé is a commune.
It is in the region of Normandy in the Orne department in the northwest of France.
There are 2,192 people living there in 2012.
It was at first, a Gallic city named *Vassiākon.
The Castle of Gacé was built in the 11th century.
The English captured the castle in 1417.
The city had important economic activity in the beginning of 19th century.
It's a industrial and agricultural town.
Fontenai-les-Louvets is a former commune of Orne in lower Normandy, France.
There are 205 people living there.
it covers .
On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune L'Orée-d'Écouves.
Mortrée is a village in Normandy, in the Orne department.
It is at  above sea level.
There are 1042 people living there in 2012.
The famous Normand family named "d'O" lived here.
It became famous in the first crusade.
The Marquis d'O (died in 1594) was finance minister and he was the favourite of Henry III of France.
Historic Sites
The Chateau d'Ô is also there.
The chateau d'Ô is made up of two parts joined by a gallery.
The entrance building that shows a Gothic flamboyant style, was built at the beginning of the 16th century.
It is very unique because of the distinguished mix of stones and bricks on these small towers.
There are sculptures on the entrance front.
The gallery was built at the same time from Italian inspiration.
The west building, was finished in the 17th century.
Gérard Bourdin, Jean-Marie Foubert, Jean-Pascal Foucher. (
2012) L'Orne, des territoires, une histoire.
Alençon : Conseil général de l'Orne.
Carrouges is a commune in the French departement of the Orne.
There are 787 peoples living there in 2012.
The town is well-known because of its castle built in the 16th century, with red bricks.
Many expositions and other activities are organized.
There is a 19th-century church.
Hunting and fishing are the favourite activities of the inhabitants.
Kavadikaranoor (; also spelt as Kavadikaranur) is a village in Salem district  in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.
It is the largest village in Thangayur panchayat.
The village is spread over an area of 12.35 km2.
The economy of the village revolves around agriculture, truck and heavy truck transports.
Kavadikaranoor has an average elevation of .
It is at the east basin of the hill called Sooriya malai (Mountain of Sun).
This mountain doesn't have any plants due to its rocky and unusual properties.
The research done geologists shows it consists of rare radioactive minerals.
A number of stone quarrying companies have been here for more than 30 years.
A lake is located in the north-eastern part of the village and irrigation spreads to nearby areas.
Vishnu is the god worshipped most in the village.
The main temple is Sri Paali Perumal.
Main festival seasons are October and April.
On the 4th Saturday of each month more than 20,000 thousand people worship here from various parts of the district.
The people are mostly Gounders.
Other minority peoples are also present in small numbers.
All the people are peacefully co-existing and living in harmony.
It has a population of 1812 as of the 2001 India census.
Males constitute 70% of the population and females 63% and an average literacy rate of 68%, higher than the national average of 59.5%.
Villages in Tamil Nadu
Sports in Japan are a part of Japanese culture.
Japan has many traditional sports such as sumo, judo, karate, and kendo.
Also, there are sports which were imported from the West such as baseball, soccer, golf and skiing.
Sports are popular with both participants and onlookers.
Some traditional sports like yabusame have ancient histories.
Baseball was first played at Waseda University in Tokyo in 1890.
Golf was imported from England; and the first golf course was created in Kobe in 1903.
Gymnastics was encouraged in schools as early as 1872.
Rugby teams were created at Keiō University in Tokyo in 1899.
Soccer was first played in 1878.
Swimming competition was first held at the Yokohama Amateur Rowing Club in 1898.
Tennis became popular in 1878.
Track and field competition began in 1883 at the University of Tokyo.
Volleyball was imported from the US in 1914.
Weightlifting was made popular by Jigoro Kano in 1922.
Another popular spectator sport is professional wrestling, locally known as puroresu (プロレス).
While the sport was known in Japan before World War II, it did not become widely popular until the rise of Rikidōzan, considered the "father" of puroresu, in the 1950s.
While similar to professional wrestling in the rest of the world in that winners are decided before the match, puroresu has become a unique style.
Most match storylines play up the wrestlers' "fighting spirit".
Also, because many Japanese wrestlers have martial arts backgrounds, most strikes during matches make full contact.
Puroresu also enjoys close ties to mixed martial arts, with some companies often holding wrestling matches and MMA fights in the same event; because of this, both wrestlers and fans treat puroresu as a combat sport.
In Japan, sports groups are an important part of school life.
The time spent in these groups allows students to adjust to Japan's vertical society.
For example, in sports, players learn to use keigo (formal, polite speech), respect and traditions.
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) website
The Japanese translation of this book is available at: https://la84.org/wp-content/uploads/LA84WaterPolo_J-1.pdf
Spencer Fox (born May 10, 1993) is an American musician, singer and actor.
He is best known as the voice of Dash Parr in The Incredibles and was the original voice of Mudbud in Air Buddies.
He is also the guitarist and vocalist of the power pop band Charly Bliss.
Tucker Albrizzi (born February 25, 2000) is an American actor, voice artist and comedian.
He is best known for his current role as Tyler on Big Time Rush and Jake on Good Luck Charlie.
He is also the new voice of Budderball in the Air Buddies series.
was a  after Jishō and before Juei.
This period started in July 1181 and ended in May 1182.
Events of the Yōwa era
1181 (Yōwa 1, 25th day of the 11th month): The wife of the late Emperor Takakura adopted the name of Kenreimon-in.
1181 (Yōwa 1): A famine that lasts for two years blights this era.
The 'Siamese' is a breed of cat from Thailand.
It is a well-known cat, especially for its blue eyes and brown face, ears, tail and paws, although not all of them look like this.
In Thailand, it is a native breed, and they are called Wichian Mat (), which means moon diamond.
There are two different types of Siamese Cat, the Traditional or Thai Siamese, and the Modern Siamese.
The fur on all Siamese cats has the same sort of pattern, known as point coloration.
This is when an animal has a pale body and a dark face, ears, feet and tail.
Traditional Siamese
The Traditional Siamese has a few features that are the same as the Modern Siamese, like the colour pattern and the short fur, but it is different because of its head and body shape.
It has long legs, and is thin and is graceful.
It has a wedge shaped head and muzzle, and round cheeks.
The ears are large and high.
The eyes are between medium and large, and have the shape of an almond.
Modern Siamese
The body of a Modern Siamese is flexible and well-muscled.
Its head is in the shape of a triangle, with a thin snout-like muzzle.
Their eyes are also almond shaped, and their ears are tall and sit more on the side of the head than the Traditional Siamese.
It's neck and tail are long and thin.
Siamese cats, both Traditional and Modern, are usually very friendly and loving cats, and will enjoy spending time with you,  although this depends on the cat.
They are known to bond to one person.
They are also very smart, more so than some other cats.
Some Siamese cat's enjoy 'talking', which has been said to sound like a human baby, and are always want attention.
Siamese cat's love to play and run around as if they were kittens all their life.
Unlike most cats, they are less active at night, and prefer to sleep through it.
This might be because their eyes lack something called tapetum lucidum, which allows cats to see better in the dark.
Also, unlike many other blue-eyed cats, Siamese cats can still hear well.
Cats that are white with blue eyes are often deaf.
Siamese cats named Si and Am have a minor role in Lady and the Tramp (1955) and its sequel, Lady and the Tramp II (2001).
They were replaced with a different breed in the 2019 remake, the Devon Rex.
The cover of the Blink-182 album Cheshire Cat features a Siamese cat.
, also romanized as Kampyō was a  after Ninna and before Shōtai.
This period started in April 889 and ended in April 898.
Events of the Kanpyō era
889 (Kanpyō 1, 10th month):  Former-Emperor Yōzei suffered a period of acute mental illness.
4 August 897 (Kanpyō 9, 3rd day of the 7th month):  In the 10th year of Uda's reign, the emperor abdicated; and his eldest son received the succession (senso).
6 August 897 (Kanpyō 9, 5th day of the 7th month): Emperor Daigo accepted the monarch's role and duties and powers (sokui).
889 establishments
898 disestablishments
Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 in Hof – 24 March 1849 in Jena) was a German chemist.
He is best known for the development of the so-called Döbereiner's lamp.
This is one of the first lighters.
Döbereiner was a professor for chemistry, pharmacy and technology at the university of Jena.
He was a friend of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
He also studied oxidations of chemical elements.
In 1832, he could oxidate  (sulfur dioxide) to  (sulfur trioxide).
Khabab (, Syriac: ܟܚܐܒܐܒ, ) is a town in southern Syria.
It is about 57 kilometres (about 36 miles) south of Damascus and about the same distance away from the city of Daraa.
Khabab.net
Khabab town site
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 silent drama movie.
It was based on the book The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr. It stars Lillian Gish.
The movie is about two families during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.
The Northern Stoneman family is pro-Union.
The Southern Cameron family is pro-Confederacy.
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth is dramatized.
It was very controversial though.
The movie was banned in several cities.
The outcry of racism was great.
Screenings were often followed by riots and attacks.
The movie is also credited in part with the formation of the "second era" Ku Klux Klan the same year.
The Birth of a Nation was used as a recruiting tool for the KKK.
In 1915, it was the first movie to be shown at the White House.
1915 movies
1910s drama movies
Micula (, Mîḵulāh) is a surname of Ashkenazi Jewish origin.
It is most popular in Eastern Europe.
The name dates back to the 11th century, many Jews moved to East Europe to avoid persecution.
In some countries the name is written as Mikula, because of the Slavic influence.
People with the surname Micula can be found in Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Israel, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Moldova.
Wayne Eliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor, voice actor.
He is known for his role as Newman in the television series Seinfeld.
Knight is from New York City.
Knight is a Democrat and  attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.
Knight was married twice.
He was first married to make-up artist Paula Sutor, they married on May 26, 1996.
They remained married until they divorced in mid 2003.
Knight married his second wife Clare de Chenu on October 15, 2006; together the couple have a son.
"Lose Control (Let Me Down)" is a song by Keri Hilson and Nelly.
The song contains two parts: the first three minutes and thirty-three seconds being "Lose Control", featuring a rap from Nelly, and the last one minute and thirty-two seconds being "Let Me Down", a solo song by Hilson. "
Lose Control" was produced by StarGate.
The producer for "Let Me Down" is unknown.
The song was only available as a radio single.
The Sheik is a 1921 silent movie.
It was  directed by George Melford.
It stars Rudolph Valentino.
The movie was based on the book The Sheik by Edith Maude Hull.
The movie is about a British lady who is captured by an Arab chieftain (a sheik).
She is held in his camp, and grows to love him.
The Sheik made Valentino a superstar.
Some critics liked the movie.
Some did not.
Most men did not like it.
They either walked out or stayed away.
Rudolph Valentino as the Sheik
Agnes Ayres as Lady Diana Mayo
Frank Butler as Sir Aubrey Mayo, Diana's brother
Lucien Littlefield as Gaston, the Sheik's valet
Adolphe Menjou as Raoul de Saint Hubert, the Sheik's friend
Walter Long as Omair, a bandit
Lady Diana Mayo is headstrong and independent.
Against her brother's advice, she plans a trip into the desert with only native guides.
That night Diana sneaks into an 'Arabs Only' casino wearing a dancer's costume.
The Sheik is there.
He discovers she is white.
He is amused, but sends her away.
He learns that she is taking a trip into the desert the next day.
He sneaks into her room and tampers with the bullets in her revolver.
Later, the Sheik and his men find Diana riding alone.
She tries to flee while shooting at the Sheik.
He easily captures her.
He takes her to his camp.
He orders her about.
He tells her she will learn to love him.
He wants to raping her, but decides against it.
The Sheik receives a visit from his friend, Raoul St. Hubert.
Raoul befriends Diana.
He chides the Sheik for treating her roughly.
Diana gradually warms to the Sheik.
She is allowed to go into the desert with his servant.
She escapes.
She sees a caravan.
It belongs to the bandit Omair.
The Sheik and his men reach her just in time.
The Sheik is in love with Diana.
He allows her to ride out again with his servant.
She writes "I love you" in the sand.
Omair captures her.
The Sheik gathers his men to attack Omair's camp.
Omair tries to rape Diana.
The Sheik and his men rush in.
The Sheik kills Omair, but he is injured.
Diana discovers that the Sheik is not an Arab.
His father was British and his mother Spanish.
They died in the desert.
Their child was raised by the old Sheik.
When the old man died, the Sheik returned to rule the tribe.
The Sheik recovers from his injury.
Diana confesses her love.
Many critics felt the toned-down rape scene ruined the original message.
It was a great success with audiences however.
Attendance records were broken.
One newspaper estimated that 125,000 people had seen the movie in its first weeks.
Producer Lasky declared the last week of November 1921 'The Sheik Week'.
He had the movie open in 250 theatres across the United States on 20 November.
The movie ran for six months in Sydney, Australia.
It ran for 42 weeks in one theatre in France.
It was the first Valentino movie to show in his native Italy.
Within the first year, The Sheik made more than $1 million.
The film cost $200,000 to make.
Female moviegoers loved Valentino.
Male moviegoers loathed him.
Men refused to see the movie.
If they did, they laughed at the love scenes.
Men walked out during the movie.
They felt threatened by Valentino's style of lovemaking.
Many called him effeminate for the long robes he wore in the movie.
Dick Dorgan harshly criticized Valetino in the magazine Photoplay.
He thought Valentino was too pretty for a male.
He even wrote a song about Valentino called "A Song of Hate!"
Leider, Emily W. Dark Lover: The life and death of Rudolph Valentino.
1920s American romance movies
Movies directed by George Melford
There are not many natural freshwater lakes in Australia.
This is because there was not a lot of glacial or tectonic activity in Australia.
coastal lakes and lagoons including perched lakes;
natural freshwater inland lakes.
These are often ephemeral and part of wetland or swamp areas;
glacial lakes
salt lakes, usually dry, in the flat desert regions of the country.
lakes which have formed in the remains of volcanoes.
lakes made for water storage and other purposes.
Coastal lakes and lagoons
Perched lakes
Freshwater lakes
Salt lakes
Volcanic lakes
List of reservoirs and dams in Australia
A Daughter of the Congo is a 1930 silent movie.
It is a race movie.
It was completely produced by blacks and intended for a black audience.
It was written, directed, and produced by Oscar Micheaux.
The movie is based on Henry Francis Downing's novel The American Cavalryman (1917).
A Daughter of the Congo is presumed to be a lost film.
The movie stars Katherine Noisette as Lupelta, a mixed race Congolese girl.
She is abducted by Arab slave traders.
She is rescued by an African American military battalion.
She is taken to a mission school.
She becomes acquainted with Western-style civilization.
She never completely loses touch with the tribal customs and influences that shaped her early years.
A Daughter of the Congo was Micheaux's last silent movie.
Silent movies were considered to have little money-making value in 1930.
Micheaux released the movie as a “talking, singing, dancing picture”.
It only contained a single short sound sequence that included a performance of the song “That Gets It”.
Theophilus Lewis of the Amsterdam News wrote a harsh review: "The scene is laid in a not so mythical republic in Africa.
Half of the characters wear European clothes and are supposed to be civilized, while the other half wear their birthday suits and some feathers and are supposed to be savages.
All the noble characters are high yellows; all the ignoble ones are black.
It is based on a false assumption that has no connection with the realities of life."
Movies directed by Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (2 January 1884 – 25 March 1951) was an American writer, movie director and independent producer of more than 44 movies.
He is regarded as the first major African-American moviemaker, and the most successful African-American moviemaker of the first half of the twentieth century.
Micheaux was the most prominent producer of race movies.
He produced both silent movies and "talkies".
Micheaux was born to former slaves on January 2, 1884, in Metropolis, Illinois.
He passed most of his early years in Great Bend, Kansas.
He moved to Chicago when he was 17.
He worked as a Pullman porter (railroad baggage handler).
In 1906, he bought land in South Dakota.
He homesteaded among white neighbors for eight years.
He began to write stories.
In 1913, he self-published his first novel, The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer.
In 1915, he had money troubles and lost his land.
He moved to Sioux City, Iowa where he ran his own publishing company.
In 1917, he rewrote The Conquest and published it as The Homesteader.
He sold the book door-to-door in small towns.
Moviemaking
An African American movie company wanted to make a movie of The Homesteader.
The company however did not want Micheaux to direct it.
They would not agree to a budget that met his expectations.
The deal was dropped.
Micheaux then turned his publishing company into the Micheaux Film and Book Company.
He sold stock in the company to raise money for his own movie of The Homesteader, and shooting began.
It was the first feature-length movie made by an African American.
It was released in Chicago in 1919, and was a great success.
Micheaux's second movie was Within Our Gates.
This was his response to D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation.
Griffith's movie was about the Ku Klux Klan.
It was one of the most popular movies of the day.
The movie challenged Griffith's message by showing that whites were more likely to harm blacks than the other way around.
Micheaux would make more than 40 movies over the next 30 years.
In 1931, his movie The Exile became the first full-length sound feature by an African American.
His last movie The Betrayal (1948) was the first movie produced by an African American­ to open in white theaters.
Micheaux died on 25 March 1951 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He is buried in the Great Bend Cemetery in Great Bend, Kansas.
His gravestone reads, "A Man Ahead of His Time."
In 1986, the Directors Guild of America posthumously granted Micheaux the Golden Jubilee Special Directorial Award.
In 1987, he received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame.
List of selected movies
The Homesteader (1919, first movie)
Within Our Gates (1919)
A Daughter of the Congo (1930, last silent movie)
The Exile (first sound movie, 1931)
The Betrayal (1948, last movie)
People from Metropolis, Illinois
The Blood of Jesus (1941) is a race movie.
It was written, directed, and starring Spencer Williams.
It was also released as The Glory Road.
The movie was produced in Texas.
Its budget was US$5,000.
Scenes from a 1911 Italian movie called L'Inferno were used to show souls entering Heaven.
The movie was screened in black theatres and black churches.
In 1991 The Blood of Jesus became the first race movie to be chosen for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
A church group is holding a riverside baptismal service.
One of those being immersed is the recently married Martha.
At home, Martha's husband Ras accidentally shoots her when his hunting rifle discharges.
The church people gather at Martha’s bedside to pray.
An angel arrives to take Martha’s spirit from her body.
She is brought to the Crossroads between Heaven and Hell.
She is tempted by the devil's agent slick Judas Green.
Judas takes Martha to a nightclub.
He arranges to have her get a job there.
The angel returns and advises Martha to flee.
She tries to flee.
A nightclub patron mistakenly believes Martha is a pickpocket who robbed him.
A chase ensues.
Martha races back to the Crossroads.
Satan is waiting for her.
The angel protects Martha from the mob.
They are driven away.
The sign at the Crossroad is transformed into the vision of Jesus Christ being crucified, and Christ’s blood drips down on Martha’s face.
She awakens to discover she is home.
Her health is restored.
Martha is reunited with her husband.
He has embraced religion.
The angel who took Martha on her journey returns to bless their marriage.
The Spokane Chiefs are an American professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1985.
They play their home games in Spokane, Washington at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena.
The were known as the Kelowna Wings from 1982 to 1985 until they relocated to Spokane and became the Chiefs.
The Chiefs were also the first team in WHL history to host an outdoor hockey game when they defeated the Kootenay Ice 11-2 on January 15, 2011.
is a Japanese town in the Kitasaku District of Nagano Prefecture.
The Tri-City Americans are an American professional ice hockey team that began playing in 1988.
They play their home games in Kennewick, Washington at the Toyota Center.
The team was originally known as the Calgary Buffalos and later changed their name to the Calgary Centennials.
The Centennials were active from 67 to 77 and were later relocated to Billings, Montana and became the Billings Bighorns.
They played in Billings from 1977 to 1998 before being relocated to Nanaimo, British Columbia and were named the Nanaimo Islanders.
The Islanders played from 1982 to 1983 before they were moved to New Westminster, British Columbia and became the New Westminster Bruins.
They moved to the Tri-Cities in 1988.
1988 establishments in North America
The Doge's Palace () is a gothic palace in Venice, northern Italy.
The palace was the home of the Doge of Venice, the ruler of the Republic of Venice In 1923 the palace became a museum, one of 11 museums run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
In 2010 it was visited by 1,358,186 people.
In 810, Doge Angelo Partecipazio moved the government from the island of Malamocco to the Rialto.
The first palace was destroyed by a fire in the 10th century, which is in the 900s.
A second palace was started by Doge Sebastiano Ziani (1172–1178).
There are still parts of this building which can be seen on the ground floor, including stone wall bases and some brick paving.
As Venice grew, the palace needed to be rebuilt to meet new demands.
For example, changes in the political structure meant there were many more members of the Great Council.
This third palace, in Gothic style, was started about 1340.
The first section was on the side facing the lagoon.
In 1424 Doge Francesco Foscari built the wing overlooking the Piazzetta.
This new building was for the law-courts, with a ground floor arcade on the outside.
The first floor had open loggias running along the facade.
When the Porta della Carta was built in 1442, it made an internal courtyard.
In 1483, a fire destroyed the Doge's residence which was in the part of the palace overlooking the canal.
Architect Antonio Rizzo used the new Renaissance style for the building's architecture.
A new building was built alongside the canal, stretching from the ponte della Canonica to the Ponte della Paglia.
The official rooms of the government had art works specially made by Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Alvise Vivarini and Giovanni Bellini.
A fire in 1547 destroyed some rooms on the second floor.
A big fire in 1577 destroyed the Scrutinio Room and the Great Council Chamber.
Art work by Gentile da Fabriano, Pisanello, Alvise Vivarini, Vittore Carpaccio, Giovanni Bellini, Pordenone, and Titian were also lost in the fire.
The palace was rebuilt in the original gothic style.
Some classical features were added, such as the Bridge of Sighs joining the prison to the palace.
The palace was the home of the government of the Republic of Venice until the Napoleonic occupation of the city in 1797.
Venice was ruled by the French, then Austria, and in 1866 it became part of Italy.
During this time, the palace was used for various government offices, the Biblioteca Marciana and other important cultural institutions within the city.
By the end of the 19th century, the building was showing clear signs of decay.
The Italian government spent a lot of money to repair the building.
All public offices were moved elsewhere, except the State Office for the protection of historical Monuments, which is still housed at the palace's loggia floor.
In 1923, the municipality of Venice set up the palace as a museum.
In 1996, the Doge’s Palace has been part of the Venetian museums network, which is run by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia since 2008.
The oldest part of the palace is the facade overlooking the lagoon.
The corners of the building have 14th century sculptures by Filippo Calendario, Raverti and Antonio Bregno.
The ground floor arcade and the loggia has 14th and 15th century capitals.
Some of these are copies made during the 19th century.
The Porta della Carta, was the grand entrance to the building.
The gateway was built and decorated by Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon from 1438–1442.
The name Porta della Carta could be because this was the area where public scribes set up their desks, or from the cartabum, where all the important government documents were kept.
On either side of the gateway are two gothic towers, with sculptures of the Cardinal Virtues.
On the top is a bust of Saint Mark, and over him is a statue of Justice with her symbols of sword and scales.
In the space above the cornice, there is a sculpture of the Doge Francesco Foscari kneeling before the St. Mark's Lion.
This was made in the 19th century by Luigi Ferrrari, to replace the original destroyed in 1797.
The courtyard
The north side of the courtyard is made by the palace and St. Mark’s Basilica, which used to be the Doge’s chapel.
At the center of the courtyard are two well-heads built in the mid-16th century.
In 1485 a grand staircase was built within the courtyard.
Linked to the Porta della Carta, it created a monumental approach from the Piazza into the heart of the building.
Since 1567, the Giants’ Staircase has been guarded by Sansovino’s two huge statues of Mars and Neptune.
These show Venice’s power by land and by sea, and therefore the reason for its name.
Members of the Senate gathered before government meetings in the Senator’s Courtyard, to the right of the Giants’ Staircase.
John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and entrepreneur.
He was one of the first to sequence the human genome, and led the team which made the first cell with a synthetic genome (2010).
Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Research and the J. Craig Venter Institute.
He now works at his Institute to create synthetic (artificial) biological organisms, and to record genetic diversity in the world's oceans.
He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
In 2010, the British magazine New Statesman listed Craig Venter at 14th in the list of "The World's 50 Most Influential Figures 2010".
Venter himself recognized his own ADHD behavior in his adolescence, and later found ADHD-linked genes in his own DNA.
In media interviews, Venter has several times said he is an atheist.
Venter, J. Craig 2007.
A life decoded: my genome: my life.
New York: Viking.
Born in London, Orgel received his B.A. and Ph.
D in chemistry at Magdalen College, Oxford University.
In 1964 Orgel was appointed Senior Fellow and Research Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he directed the Chemical Evolution Laboratory.
He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and he was one of five principal investigators in the NASA-sponsored NSCORT program in exobiology.
Orgel also participated in NASA's Viking Mars Lander Program as a member of the Molecular Analysis Team that designed the gas chromatography mass spectrometer instrument that robots took to the planet Mars.
In his book The Origins of Life, Orgel coined the concept of specified complexity, to describe the criterion by which living organisms are distinguished from non-living matter.
Fellow of the Royal Society
Leslie E. Orgel, An introduction to transition-metal chemistry: the ligand field theory.
Leslie E. Orgel, The origins of life: molecules and natural selection.
Leslie E. Orgel and Stanley L. Miller, The origins of life on the Earth.
2000 saw the abolishment of the Azerbaijani law forbidding homosexual interactions (gay sex).
A special edition of Azerbaijan, the official newspaper of the Parliament, published on 28 May, reported that the Parliament had approved a new Criminal Code, and that the President had signed a decree bringing it into force in September.
The text of the new Criminal Code was also published.
From this it is clear that the old Article 113 (inherited from the Soviet era, and which punished anal sex between men with three years imprisonment) has been replaced with a new Article 150, which bans only forcible sexual acts.
When Azerbaijan became part of USSR, despite in Lenin-era of Soviet Russia homosexuality was not banned, it remained as crime in Azerbaijan.
As the homosexuality was most widespread in Azerbaijan, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan and Georgia, the legislation on persecution of homosexuals remained in force in 1920's.
After the independence of Azerbaijan in 1991, homosexual acts were legalized in 2000.
The official newspaper of the Parliament, published on 28 May 2000, reported that the Parliament had approved a new criminal code, and that the President had signed a decree bringing it into force in September.
The old Article 113 (inherited from the Soviet era, and which punished anal sex between men with three years imprisonment) has been replaced with a new Article 150, which bans only forcible sexual acts.
Although homosexual acts between consenting male adults were officially decriminalized, reports about police abuses against gays, mainly male prostitutes, persisted during the last year.
While complaining of the violence against them, the victims preferred to remain anonymous fearing retaliation on the part of police." (
2001 Report of the International Helsinki Federation).
Homosexuality is illegal in the Maldives.
In addition, the Maldives was one of the 67 signatory nations opposing the UN declaration on sexual orientation and gender identity, which failed to pass.
Constitutional framework
In 2009 the Maldives enacted  a new Constitution that included a chapter on rights and freedoms, demonstrating the desire to embrace a new culture of human rights.
However, this did not include any resolutions regarding LGBT human rights issues.
Recognition of same-sex relationships
Discrimination protections
Chrissie Maher, OBE (born 1938) is a British advocate for the use of plain English.
She is a co-founder of the Plain English Campaign.
This organisation promotes the clear use of English, especially by businesses and official bodies.
Her campaign began in 1971 when she founded the United Kingdom's first community newspaper, the Tuebrook Bugle.
That gave her the chance to write articles saying that organisations should start using plain English.
In 1974, Maher went on to start The Liverpool News.
It was the UK's first newspaper for adults with reading difficulties.
She was also a member of the UK's National Consumer Council.
Later, she founded the Plain English Campaign at a demonstration in London in 1979.
For her efforts, Maher was awarded the OBE in 1993.
In 1995, she was awarded an honorary MA degree by Manchester University.
In 1997 she received an honorary doctorate from the Open University.
In 2000, Maher was named "Information Pioneer of the Century" by the UK's National Information Forum.
In 2010, Maher received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University for her services to communication.
Tom McArthur, editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language said, "In all the history of the language, there has never been such a powerful grassroots movement to influence it as the Plain English Campaign."
Plain English Campaign Homepage
| name           = Faust
| writer         = Hans Kyser
| starring       = Gösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla HornWilhelm DieterleFrida RichardYvette Guilbert
| director       = F. W. Murnau
| producer       = Erich Pommer
| music          = Werner Richard Heymann (in the premiere) William Axt (US, uncredited)| cinematography = Carl Hoffman
| editing        =
| distributor    = UFA (Germany)Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
| runtime        = 106 minutes
| language       = Silent filmGerman intertitles
| country        = Weimar Republic
| budget         = 2 million marks
}}Faust is a 1926 German silent movie.
It was  directed by F. W. Murnau.
It stars Gösta Ekman as Faust, Emil Jannings as Mephisto, and Camilla Horn as Gretchen.
The story is about an old man who sells his soul to the devil.
In return he becomes young again.
The movie uses both traditional tales of Faust and Goethe's play.
The movie was difficult and expensive to make.
He moved to the United States to direct Sunrise.
The "Bald Mountain" scene in the movie inspired the "Night on Bald Mountain" segment in Walt Disney's Fantasia.
Eisner, Lotte H. 1973.
Faust '' at the Arts & Faith Top100 Spiritually Significant Films  list
DVD review by Gary Johnson
1926 movies
1920s fantasy movies
German fantasy movies
A synapomorphy is a common character.
It is a term in cladistics, meaning a trait which is present in two or more species by common descent.
It is a type of homologous character or homology.
More precisely, it is shared by two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose own ancestor in turn does not possess the trait.
Thus, it is not just an ancestral trait, but a recently evolved distinguishing trait.
It helps to distinguish between two trees of descent which would otherwise be equally likely.
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Spanish Cup: 2005–06
Austrian Champion: 2012; 2014
Austrian Cup: 2012; 2014
Pichichi Trophy (Second Division): 2010–11
Best Scorer Austria: 2013/14
Conquest of the Pole () is a 1912 silent movie.
It was directed and produced by Georges Méliès.
It was based on the book The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne.
The movie is about a race to the north pole by different groups of balloonists.
A complicated scene in the movie has a frost giant who tries to eat the crew.
1912 movies
French science fiction movies
1910s fantasy movies
Movies directed by Georges Méliès
View of Delft is an oil painting.
It was painted by Johannes Vermeer between about 1660 and 1661.
The painting shows Vermeer's hometown.
It is one of his most popular pictures.
It is one of three paintings of Delft by Vermeer.
The others are The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft.
In 2011, the painting was featured on gold and silver commemorative coins issued by the Royal Dutch Mint.
Paintings by Johannes Vermeer
Larkin was born and raised in Coventry, Warwickshire, where he attended primary and secondary school.
He graduated from St John's College, Oxford with a double first in English language and literature.
Larkin spent the latter years of his life in Hull, where he was a librarian at the University of Hull.
Larkin died in Hull, Humberside, of oesophageal cancer.
Drake (musician), Canadian recording artist and actor
Drake Passage between Cape Horn and Antarctica
A male duck
Drake is a word used to describe (particular types of) dragon or similar creatures.
Drake, Caldari battlecruiser in the video game EVE Online
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth pseudo-mythology, "drake" (and "worm") is a word for dragon
Skyler Gisondo (born July 22, 1996) is an American actor.
Gisondo is probably best known for his roles as Bryan Pearson on The Bill Engvall Show, Tommy Doyle in Rob Zombie's Halloween, and B-Dawg in the Air Buddies series.
He has also been in TV shows such as ER, Everybody Loves Raymond, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, My Name Is Earl, House and CSI.
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 - July 2, 1991) was an American actress.
She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts.
She played the female lead in Anatomy of a Murder, Days of Wine and Roses and The Omen.
Remick won a Golden Globe award in 1973.
In 1975 she won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA award.
Miranda Leigh Lambert (born November 10, 1983) is an American country music artist who gained fame as a finalist on the 2003 season of Nashville Star, where she finished in third place and later signed to Epic Records.
She was married to country singer Blake Shelton whom divorced in 2015.
She has five solo albums released as of 2011 and one with country supergroup Pistol Annies.
Some of her most known songs are "Gunpowder and Lead", "Kerosene", "The House That Built Me", "White Liar", "Heart Like Mine", and "Baggage Claim".
"Tin Man" (2017)
Miranda Lambert (2001)
Kerosene (2005)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2007)
Four the Record (2011)
Platinum (2014)
The Weight of These Kings (2016)
Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American country singer and television personality.
Shelton is signed to Warner Nashville.
Some of his most known songs are "Ol' Red", "Some Beach", "Hillbilly Bone", "Kiss My Country Ass", "Honey Bee", "God Gave Me You", and "Drink on It".
He has been a judge on The Voice since April 2011.
Shelton was married to country singer Miranda Lambert from 2011 until 2015.
He is currently in a relationship with singer Gwen Stefani.
The two collaborated on the song "You Make It Feel like Christmas", featured on Stefani's 2017 Christmas album of the same
"Sangria (see Sangria; 2015)
"I Lived It" (2018)
"Minium Wage (2021)
The Battle of Balaclava was a battle of the Crimean War.
It was on 25 October 1854 by the Ottoman Empire, the French Empire, and the United Kingdom against the Russian Empire.
The battle ended with a Russian victory.
Two of the most important events of the Crimean
War took place during the Battle of Balaclava.
The 93rd Highland Regiment, which was dressed almost only in red, formed a line that was two men thick and stood its ground despite a charge by the Russian cavalry.
The charge was made by the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers, and the 8th and 11th Hussars, under the command of Major General the Earl of Cardigan.
Many people died in the charge since 278 of the over 670 soldiers were killed.
The event inspired the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, of the same name.
Hewlett-Packard, a electronics company
Harry Potter, a book series about magic
Himachal Pradesh, a state in India
HP postcode area, a group of UK postal districts
Hit Points, a stat common in role-playing games
Plano is a city in the state of Texas in the United States.
It is the ninth largest city in the state.
Over 280,000 people live there.
Dell Services, a division of Dell
HP Enterprise Services, a division of Hewlett-Packard
Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Siemens PLM Software, a division of the Siemens group
J. C. Penney
Capital One Financial Services
Fargo is a 1996 American black comedy-drama crime thriller movie.
The Coen brothers made this movie, which is set in 1987.
Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy star in the movie as a detective, a criminal, and a car salesman, respectively.
It is a dark comedy about the police investigation of some murders and bad business activities.
In 2006 it was put into the United States National Film Registry because the group thought it was culturally, historically, or aesthetically important enough to be recognized in their collection.
It inspired a TV series of the same name
Part of the movie is set in Fargo, North Dakota.
The majority is in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
It shows the culture and accent of many of the people who live there.
1996 crime movies
Movies set in 1987
Movies set in North Dakota
Viktor Mikhailovich Kozin () (born February 22, 1953) is a Russian naval engineer, ship designer and inventor of a new method of icebreaking, called the resonance method of ice destruction.
He received his Assistant Professorship in Technical Sciences (Ph.D.) for his work Mechanics of deformable solids in Vladivostok in 1994.
He became a full Professor in 1996 and was awarded the title Honored Inventor of the Russian Federation in 2000.
Since 2008 he is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS).
Kozin was awarded a diploma from the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1999) and won grants from the Russian Ministry of Education (2006).
He received multiple prizes for his academic and scientific achievements in the theory of watercraft statics and dynamics, design of vessels, hydraulics and hydromechanics, ship and submarine construction.
He is the author of 2 textbooks in naval engineering and 12 works on the methods of education in the area of naval design.
Encyclopedia - SCIENTISTS OF RUSSIA - scientists from the CIS and countries of CIS
Scientific Electronic Library - monographs published by the publishing house of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Telecast "Time, City, People, 2002 ".
About Kozin VM STRC "Komsomolsk" Part 1
About Kozin VM STRC "Komsomolsk" Part 2
The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent movie.
It was written, directed, and produced by Charlie Chaplin.
He stars in the movie, too.
The movie is set in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Chaplin plays the Little Tramp.
It was a character he created.
The Little Tramp appeared in many Chaplin movies.
In this movie, the Little Tramp has many adventures with other prospectors.
He falls in love with a saloon girl.
One critic wrote, "Here is a comedy with streaks of poetry, pathos, tenderness, linked with brusqueness and boisterousness.
It is the outstanding gem of all Chaplin's pictures, as it has more thought and originality than even such masterpieces of mirth as The Kid and Shoulder Arms."
In 1992 The Gold Rush was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.