the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
It was made to make using free software easy, while giving the choice to use non-free (not open source) parts.
These parts might be programs, drivers, or codecs.
Linspire, a commercial Linux distribution, is made from Freespire.
In Christianity, the spiritual gifts are gifts given to Christians.
Each Christian has his or her own gift (or gifts).
They are talked about in the New Testament, mainly in First Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4.
Some believe that they only worked in early Christianity.
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The word sanctification refers to the act of making holy or setting apart as special.
The word is used five times in the Authorized Version of the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Thessalonians 4:3,1 Thessalonians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, and 1 Peter 1:2).
To sanctify means “to set apart for special use or purpose,” and “to make holy or sacred,” and etymologically from the Latin verb 'sanctificare' which in turn is from sanctus “holy” and facere “to make.”
When an object or place is made holy, usually a ceremony is performed.
Then people see that it is a special object or place and treat it with respect.
A person may also be "set apart for special purpose", as when a priest or pastor is ordained.
Sanctification can also refer to the process by which a person becomes a good moral person, or  someone with a close relationship to God.
This may not include any ceremony.
Persons who achieve this holiness are sometimes called Saints.
Some churches have a list of saints who have been recognized as having been especially holy persons.
Generally in Protestant teaching, all Christians are considered saints.
All are expected to become people who are close to God and who live a life like that which Jesus taught.
Reading the Bible, prayer, worshiping God and Jesus and telling others about their faith are important in becoming sanctified.
Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is speaking rapid speech-like syllables which cannot be understood.
In some cases it is part of religious practice.
Some consider it as a part of a sacred language.
It is a common practice amongst Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity.
In 1972 a linguist from the University of Toronto published an assessment of Pentecostal glossolalia.
His assessment was based on a large sample of glossolalia recorded in public and private Christian meetings in Italy, the Netherlands, Jamaica, Canada and the US.
Samarin found that glossolalic speech is like human language in some respects.
The speaker uses accent, rhythm, intonation and pauses to break up the speech into distinct units.
Each unit is itself made up of syllables.
The syllables are formed from consonants and vowels taken from a language known to the speaker:
It is verbal behaviour that consists of using a certain number of consonants and vowels... in a limited number of syllables that in turn are organized into larger units that are taken apart and rearranged pseudogrammatically... with variations in pitch, volume, speed and intensity.p120
Samarin found that the resemblance to human language was just on the surface.
He concluded that glossolalia is "only a facade of language".p128 The syllable string did not form words, the stream of speech was not internally organized, and – most importantly of all – there was no systematic relationship between units of speech and concepts.
Humans use language to communicate but glossolalia does not.
Therefore, he concluded that glossolalia is not "a specimen of human language because it is neither internally organized nor systematically related to the world man perceives".p128 On the basis of his linguistic analysis, Samarin defined Pentecostal glossolalia as "meaningless but phonologically structured human utterance, believed by the speaker to be a real language but bearing no systematic resemblance to any natural language, living or dead".p2
Christian hedonism is a controversial Christian doctrine in some evangelical churches, partly those of the Reformed tradition.
This term was made by Baptist pastor John Piper in his 1986 book Desiring God.
Piper talks about this philosophy of the Christian life as "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him."
hedonism
Yucatec Maya ("Maaya T'aan" in the revised orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula.
It is also spoken in northern Belize and parts of Guatemala.
To native speakers, it is known only as Maya - "Yucatec" is a label linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages (such as K'iche' and Itza' Maya).
Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian city.
The ruins are in Mexico today, in the state of Yucatán.
According to the records of the Maya, the city was built around the year 500 AD.
According to current research, about 25.000 people lived there.
Most of the buildings that can be seen today were built between 700 and 1100.
After 1200, there seems to be no new construction.
The ruling family moved their capital elsewhere, and the population of the city declined.
According to the documents of the Spanish conquerors, the city still had some importance in the 1550s.
It was probably abandoned soon afterwards, as the Spanish built no city nearby.
Tayasal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site from the Postclassic period.
The site is in the southern Maya lowlands on a small island in Lake Petén Itzá.
This island is now part of the Department of Petén in northern Guatemala.
Tayasal was the capital of one of the last independent Maya polities to be conquered by the Spanish conquistadores and colonizers, along with Zacpeten (the capital of the Ko'woj Maya) and Eixequil (the Yalnain capital), in 1697.
As an archaeological site, it was heavily damaged by the Spanish after its fall.
The capital city of the modern Petén department, Flores, has been built over the island and the nearby shores of the lake.
The Itza left the Yucatán region in the 13th century and built the city later known as Tayasal as their capital.
They called it Noh Petén, or literally "City Island".
It was also called Tah Itzá, or Place of the Itzá.
The Spanish were not able to conquer the island until 1697, after several attempts, that begun in 1629, when they marched in, from Corozal in Belize, Yucatán and Alta Verapaz, attacked with boats, and destroyed it.
Many Itzá people hid in the jungle for years.
The structures of Noh Petén were turned into the Roman Catholic Church and other buildings in the city of Flores.
History and Photos from Tayasal, Zacpetén and Queixil Islands
An archaeological site is a place where physical remains of the past survive.
The archaeologists working there will carefully record what they find.
They may also change the site so that what has been found can be preserved better.
The site will have trenches so that people can excavate better.
To start the excavation, the topsoil will be removed.
Special tools like pickaxes and mattocks are used to break up and remove very hard compacted soil.
Shovels and spades are used to clear away bulk debris.
Other hand tools used in bulk cleanup work are hoes, rakes, forks, and the wheelbarrow to cart it away.
Copán was a Maya city.
Today, the ruins are in Honduras, near the border to Guatemala.
The kingdom of Copan flourished from the 5th to the 9th century.
The people would hire slaves to build houses.
If they hired 80 - 100 workers it would usually take them around 2-3 months to finish it
History of Honduras
Stephenie Meyer (born December 24, 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American author.
She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.
She is the author of the Twilight series.
The Host, Meyer's first adult novel, was released on May 6, 2008.
Meyer's first novel, Twilight, has won numerous honors, including:
A New York Times Editor's Choice
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
An Amazon.com "Best Book of the Decade...So Far"
A Teen People "Hot List" pick
An American Library Association "Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults" and "Top Ten Books for Reluctant Readers”
Translation into 20 languages
Stephenie Meyer's official website
The Twilight Series's official website
The Twilight Lexicon
Stephenie's IMDB page
Flora Jane Thompson (5 December 1876 – 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet that was famous for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, Lark Rise to Candleford.
She was born in Juniper Hill, a hamlet in north-east Oxfordshire.
She was the eldest of six children of the stonemason Albert and the nursemaid Emma Timms.
In her books her favourite brother, Edwin, is mentioned as important companion during her childhood.
He was killed near Ypres in 1916.
Flora was educated in the village Cottisford and worked in various post offices in southern England.
The first of these was Fringford, a village about four miles north-east of Bicester.
Flora started work here in 1891, as assistant to the postmistress, Mrs. Kezia Whitton.
Among other post offices where Flora worked was that at Grayshott, in Hampshire, and she later moved to Bournemouth.
In 1903 she married John William Thompson, with whom she had two sons and a daughter.
Flora benefited from good access to books when the public library opened in Winton, in 1907.
Not long after, in 1911, she won an essay competition in The Ladies Companion for a 300-word essay on Jane Austen.
She later wrote extensively, publishing short stories and magazine and newspaper articles.
She was a keen self-taught naturalist and many of her nature articles were anthologised in 1986.
Her most famous works are the Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy, which she sent as essays to Oxford University Press in 1938 and which were published soon after.
The books are a, if autobiographical, but fictionalised social history of rural English life in the late 19th and early 20th century and are now considered minor classics.
Flora Thompson died in 1947 in Brixham, Devon and is buried at Longcross Cemetery, Dartmouth, Devon.
Bog Myrtle and Peat (1921)
Lark Rise (1939)
Over to Candleford (1941)
Candleford Green (1943)
Lark Rise to Candleford (1945, above three novels published as a trilogy)
Still Glides the Stream (1948, published posthumously)
Heatherley (sequel to Lark Rise to Candleford written c.1944 - published posthumously first in A Country Calendar 1979 along with some Peverel Papers and some poems; then as single volume 1998)
Gates of Eden (serialised in The Peverel Monthly edited by Flora in the late 1920s but never published as a separate volume)
Nature articles
The Peverel Papers (1986, published )
Flora Thompson website
Lark Rise to Candleford website
ClamWin Free Antivirus is a free, open source antivirus software for Microsoft Windows.
It provides a graphical user interface to the ClamAV engine.
de:ClamAV#ClamWin für Windows
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (born October 31, 1964 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is a former Dutch footballer.
He was most recently the manager of the Netherlands national football team.
He had to quit playing football early because of an injury that kept him from playing for more than a year.
Van Basten was known for his strength on the ball, his tactical awareness and spectacular strikes and volleys.
Van Basten was named FIFA World Player of the Year in 1992 and won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1988, 1989 and 1992.
He was named "UEFA best Player of the Year" three times (1989, 1990 and 1992) and "FIFA World Player of the Year" in 1992.
In a French magazine named France Football, he was voted as one of the eight best Football Players of the Century.
In 1999, he was ranked sixth in the FIFA Player of the Century internet poll.
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Ajax:
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 1987.
Dutch Championship: 1982, 1983, 1985.
Dutch Cup: 1983, 1986, 1987.
Milan:
European Cup: 1989, 1990 (now called: UEFA Champions League).
Intercontinental Cup: 1989, 1990.
European Supercup: 1989, 1990.
Italian Championship: 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994.
Italian Super Cup: 1988, 1992, 1993.
UEFA European Championship: 1988
Nasazzi's Baton: 1985
Dutch League Top Scorer: (28 goals)
European Silver Boot: (28 goals)
Dutch Footballer of the Year
Dutch League Top Scorer: (22 goals)
European Golden Boot: (37 goals)
Dutch League Top Scorer: (37 goals)
Onze d'Argent
Dutch League Top Scorer: (31 goals)
Bravo Award: 1987
European Championship 1988 Top Scorer and Best Player: (5 goals).
Onze d'Or
World Soccer Player of the Year
European Footballer of the Year France Football
European Cup Top Scorer: (10 goals)
Italian League Silver Top Scorer: (19 goals)
Best Player of the Year UEFA
Italian League Top Scorer: (19 goals)
Best Player World of the Year IFFHS: 1988, 1989
Italian League Top Scorer: (25 goals)
FIFA World Player of the Year
European Silver Boot: (6 goals)
Named in FIFA 100 by Pelé
Dutch football managers
Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
AZ Alkmaar managers
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar.
The term "masonry" can also refer to the units themselves.
The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile.
Masonry is generally a highly durable form of construction.
Masonry is commonly used for the walls of buildings, retaining walls and monuments.
Brick is the most common type of masonry.
Concrete block masonry is rapidly gaining in popularity as a comparable material.
Mason Contractors Association of America
MasonrySystems.org
International Masonry Institute
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
Masonry Advisory Council
National Concrete Masonry Association
Lark Rise to Candleford  is a trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels set in the English countryside in the late 19th century.
They were written by Flora Thompson, and first published in that form in 1945.
The trilogy includes the previously published stories Lark Rise (1939), Over to Candleford (1941) and Candleford Green (1943).
The stories relate to three communities, a hamlet, the nearby village and the nearest town in Oxfordshire, England.
The stories are loosely based around Flora's childhood experiences.
The books describe village life through the seasons of the year.
The television scriptwriter and playwright Keith Dewhurst adapted Thompson’s trilogy into two plays, Lark Rise and Candleford, which were performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of London’s National Theatre in 1978–9.
Dewhurst selected just two days: the first day of harvest for Lark Rise and the first hunt meet of the new year, a winter’s day in January, for Candleford.
The plays try to make the audience recognize the value of a way of life, close to the land and countryside, that they could never know for themselves. “
It will send most spectators out wiser and happier human beings...one of those rare theatrical occasions with a genuine healing quality”,  wrote theatre critic Michael Billington of The Guardian.
Lark Rise Visited   The Soundtrack from the TV show.
Great War Fiction Commentary from a resident of Juniper Hill—the real village of “Lark Rise”.
Lark Rise to Candleford is a British television costume drama series, adapted by the BBC from Flora Thompson's trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels about the English countryside.
The first episode aired on 13 January 2008 on BBC One and BBC HD.
Its cast includes actors from other late 2007 and early 2008 BBC costume dramas such as Sense and Sensibility and Cranford.
The story set in Oxfordshire.
It is about Laura Timmins, a teenage girl from the village of Lark Rise who is sent by her parents to work as an assistant at the post office in the nearby town of Candleford.
The post office is run by Miss Dorcas Lane, who is a cousin of Laura's mother.
Laura's father, the stonemason Robert Timmins, at first misses her but later becomes proud of her for doing well in her new job.
Laura's friend Alf Arless is in love with her, but, as Laura becomes used to life in Candleford, he realises that she will never return his feelings.
A second series began in January 2009, introducing some new characters.
These include a new maid, Minnie, and a rich hotel-owner, James Dowland, who falls in love with Dorcas Lane.
In the end, the series had a four season run.
The BBC stopped a fifth season, because the team felt that after four seasons, the time was right to bring in new dramas.
It was said they hoped viewers would love the new programmes in the same way.
The last episode on BBC was in early 2011.
Changes from source material
The Debtors Act of 1869 abolished putting people in prison for debt they could not pay.
The series makes much of Mrs Arless', played by Dawn French, imprisonment for debt.
In the novels the events are played out in the 1880s and later.
So imprisonment for debt would therefore be a mistake in the chronology of time.
Lark Rise to Candleford at bbc.co.uk
2008 British television series debuts
2011 British television series endings
Period television series
Cinnabar is a mineral.
It is the main ore of mercury and is made up of the chemical mercuric sulphide (HgS).
Cinnabar exists in two crystal forms.
Red cinnabar is used for the pigment vermilion.
It is poisonous, and may go black with age.
The other crystal form is black, and does not react chemically to anything except strong acids.
Cinnabar has a Mohs hardness of 2-2.5.
Cinnabar has been mined since the Neolithic age.
It is a cool metal.
The rattlesnake is a kind of snake, a reptile.
About 50 species of rattlesnakes are known: they are a kind of pit viper.
There are two groups of rattlesnakes: the genera Crotalus and Sistrurus.
All  have a venomous bite, and some are much more dangerous than others.
Pit vipers  have a set of heat-sensing "pits" on their heads which help them find prey and move towards it, even in the dark.
The name rattlesnake is used because they have a special tail with several parts on the end that can make a loud bzzzz sound, or rattle.
This defends them against predators and large animals.
It acts as a warning signal.
Rattlesnakes are native to the Americas from southwest Canada to central Argentina.
They usually live in dry areas.
They eat small animals such as birds and rodents.
When they are young, many are eaten by birds.
When they are adult, they have a particular enemy: the common kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula, a colubrid snake.
12 Rounds is a 2009 movie set to be directed by Renny Harlin and produced by WWE Films.
Casting is currently taking place, but professional wrestler John Cena is set to star with Steve Harris, Aidan Gillen, and Brian J. White.
Filming has been scheduled to take place in New Orleans between February 25 and May 12, 2008.
Movies directed by Renny Harlin
The Miami Seaquarium is an aquarium on Virginia Key, in Miami, Florida.
The park has animals such as dolphins, whales, snakes, crocodiles, alligators, sharks, fish, parrots, turtles or sea turtles, etc.
It has been open since 1955.
The main attraction is Lolita, the world's oldest captive orca.
She is now the park's only orca.
Animal rights activists have long argued that the tank does not meet federal minimum requirements (Animal Welfare Act).
The USDA has recently made statements in support of the activists' argument.
However, Lolita is a special case.
Buildings and structures in Miami, Florida
The winter solstice is the time when the sun has the biggest distance to the Tropic of Cancer.
After this, the sun is going to move to back in the direction of the equator.
The sunlight reaches the Earth at an angle.
On each day of the year, the sun will be perpendicular at a given latitude.
At the start of spring and at the start of autumn it passes over the equator.
On the June Solstice it is over the Tropic of Cancer, at 23.5 degrees north.
In the Northern Hemisphere this is the longest day of the year, which has the shortest night and is called the Summer Solstice.
In the Southern Hemisphere this is the shortest day of the year, which has the longest night and is called the Winter Solstice.
On the December Solstice it is over the Tropic of Capricorn, at 23.5 degrees south.
In the Southern Hemisphere this is the longest day of the year, which has the shortest night and is called the Summer Solstice.
In the Northern Hemisphere this is the shortest day of the year, which has the longest night and is called the Winter Solstice.
For the northern hemisphere, the Winter solstice is around 21 December.
This means that the sun is at the southern tropic.
For the southern Hemisphere, the winter solstice is around 21 June.
This means that the sun is at the northern tropic.
The word solstice comes from Latin Sol (sun) and sistere (to not move), winter solstice meaning Sun standstill in winter.
The earth prone and moves in an elliptic way around the sun.
Because of this, the point from where the sun is shining moves between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.
He began as an architect.
In 1948 he travelled to Paris and took painting courses.
After returning to Chile he attended the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile, where he studied with two known teachers, Lily Garafulic and Marta Colvin.
In 1956 he studied at the Art Student League of New York.
From 1967 he taught at the University of Chile.
He lived and worked for many years at San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain.
In 1985 he joined the faculty of Boston University, in the US.
He built several large pieces on the campus of Boston University.
He won the National Award in Art (1997). “
50 años creando mis animales en acero” (50 years making my steel animals) is his recent exposition, including things that look a little like animals.
Some of his works
The summer solstice is when the Sun is at its highest point in the sky during a year.
The solstice itself is one moment, but many use the word to mean the day when the solstice happens.
The summer solstice does not always happen on exactly the same day.
For the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice is around 21 June (20, 21 or 22 of June).
For the southern hemisphere, the summer solstice is around 21 December.
Bearded dragons are agamid lizards in the genus Pogona.
The central bearded dragon is the common name for Pogona vitticeps, which lives in dry areas of Australia The name "bearded dragon" refers to the fringes around and under the head.
The underside of the throat turns black if they are stressed or see a potential rival.
Central bearded dragons can grow to about 2 feet long.
Half of the length of a bearded dragon's body is its tail.
Females are usually smaller than males.
If a bearded dragon is scared, it will flatten its body against the ground, puff out its spiky throat, and open its jaws to make itself look larger.
Bearded dragons sometimes open their mouths wide to allow hot air to warm them better when they are lying in the sun.
They also open their mouths to help them cool down; the warm air and heat escapes through their mouths.
This behavior is similar to panting.
Habitat and Behavior
In the wild, the central bearded dragon lives in dry, hot forests and deserts in central Australia.
They can climb very well, and spend a lot of time on top of tree branches, fence posts, and bushes.
They are ectotherms, meaning they rely on their environment to warm them, so they spend the mornings and evenings out in the sun.
During the mid-morning and mid evening they will bask on rocks or in trees, they hide underground during the night.
If you ever see a bearded dragon with his head pointed down and flat it is sick and you should not touch it.
Adult bearded dragons are very territorial.
As they grow, they establish territories in which displays of aggression and appeasement form a normal part of their social interactions.
A dominant male will adopt a dominant stance and sometimes ready himself for a fight to attack a male aggressor to defend territory, food sources, or in competition for a female.
Bearded dragons do not make sounds usually, but when they are scared they might hiss like a cat.
They move their bodies and change color to talk to each other.
Sometimes, young bearded dragons will wave their arms to greet adults.
A dominant bearded dragon will take the highest spot to rest, and will climb over others to get there.
Bearded dragons also bob their heads up and down to communicate.
Central bearded dragons eat small and large insects, such as grasshoppers and worms.
They also eat  leaves, fruit, vegetables and flowers.
They get most of their water from the food they eat, but they also need to drink sometimes.
You can also give them horn worms (tomato worms) as a treat once or twice a every two months as a treat.
Bearded dragon advice page
Bearded Dragons as Pets
Reptiles of Australia
Mensa International (or just Mensa) is the largest, oldest and most famous high-IQ group of people in the world.
The non-profit organization only has members with high IQs.
They must score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised intelligence test.
In many cases the IQ you have to have to join is 130.
Mensa Education and Research Foundation
Mensa for Kids
Example of tests similar to Mensa tests
Mensa, meaning table in Latin, could mean:
Mensa International, an organization for people with a high IQ
Mensa (constellation), a southern star constellation
Mensa (geology), a term used by geologists to refer to an extraterrestrial mesa
Mensa, a nightclub promoter known for Saturday night raves at Sterns Nightclub
Mensa Records, a record label
mensa, the German and Dutch term for "cafeteria"
mensa, the Spanish term for "stupid"
mensa, the table top of an altar
Intertel is the second oldest and third largest high IQ society.
Members must score in the top one percentile on a standardized, supervised IQ test.
The name was originally "The International Legion of Intelligence" and members are called ILIans.
Coweta, Oklahoma, United States
Coweta County, Georgia, United States
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (, also called the DJIA, Dow 30, The Dow Jones or The Dow) is a stock market index.
It was created by Charles Dow, who worked for the Wall Street Journal newspaper and later made a new company named Dow Jones & Company.
The stock prices of 30 companies are used to calculate the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The 30 companies are picked by experts who work for Dow Jones.
These people pick companies so that the calculated number will represent the general economy of the United States.
The rules to pick companies say that all the companies must be from the USA.
The rules also say the companies' stocks must be traded on either the NYSE or the Nasdaq Exchange.
In the past the companies were all heavy industries companies and made things like steel, oil, autos, and appliances.
Now the DJIA has many different kinds of companies including some that offer products and services like medicine or software.
For a list of companies that have once been a part on the Dow Jones but are no longer part of it today, see this list.
Old Major is a character in the book Animal Farm.
He is an award winning elderly Middle White boar.
He is twelve years of age, and had 400 piglets.
Old Major has a wise and benevolent look but his tushes are never cut.
He had given inspiration to the other pigs about the fair rules on the farm once the farmers were gone, before Old Major died.
Old Major is based on Marx and Lenin of the Russian Revolution, whose ideas changed into Communism.
Role in the Story
One evening, Old Major said that he had a dream the night before.
Because of the dream, a meeting was to be held in the big barn at night.
At the meeting, he talked with the other animals about the cause of their suffering, Man.
He gave them the way to end their problem, rebellion.
Later, he told the farm animals about his dream.
In the dream he saw the Earth after Man was no longer on it.
He also remembered a song sung by the animals of old, "Beasts of England", which the animals learned very fast.
While the animals were singing "Beasts of England", the sound woke their owner Mr. Jones.
He fired his gun six times.
This ended the meeting immediately.
Old Major died peacefully in his sleep 3 days later.
Animal Farm characters
Fictional pigs
The Yanomami (also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama) is a local tribe living in southern Venezuela (Amazonas department) and northern Brazil (Amazonas state and Roraima).
There are approximately 35,000 Yanomami people who live in some 200–250 villages.
They live in shabonos, which are villages made with wood, straw and palm leaves.
They live in small groups, and shelter in one huge house and it is called a Yanos which can hold up to 250 Yanomami people.
Each of the sections has its own language.
The Yanomami tribe is also known as the Yanomamo.
There is an average of 20,000 Yanomami.
About 12,000 of them are Yanomamo.
They eat plantains which is the most important food.
The Yanomami love to hunt.
Most of the child
raising is done by the females of the family.
Yanomami tribe villages sometimes have different languages so people from one may not understand the others.
Rituals are a very important part of being a Yanomami.
There are about 200-250 Yanomami villages in the area between the tropic of cancer to Capricorn.
South American peoplejsjakakajjs
Glamis Castle is one of the most famous castles in the United Kingdom.
It is near the village of Glamis, in Angus, Scotland.
It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
Glamis Castle was the childhood home of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, best known as the Queen Mother.
Her daughter, Princess Margaret, was born there.
A picture of the castle is featured on the Royal Bank of Scotland ten pound note.
Parts of the castle and its gardens are open to the public.
There is also a tea room for visitors.
There are many famous stories and legends about Glamis Castle.
Glamis Castle is set in the wide valley of Strathmore, near Forfar, the capital of Angus.
It is between the Sidlaw Hills to the south and the Grampian Mountains to the north, about 12 miles (20 kilometres) from the North Sea.
The estate (the castle's land) covers more than 14,000 acres (57 km²).
There are gardens and walking trails, as well as a farm which produces beef and a plantation (planted forest) which produces timber.
There are two streams run through the estate.
Near one stream, called the Glamis Burn is an arboretum (a tree garden) which has trees from all over the world, many of them rare and several hundred years old.
Birds and other small wildlife can often be seen in the grounds.
History, legends and tales
People have lived in the area of Glamis Castle since Prehistoric times, and signs of these people can sometimes be found.
A stone with richly carved decoration was found in a creek-bed nearby.
It is known as the Eassie Stone and it is believed to date from about 600 AD.
In 1034, Malcolm II of Scotland was murdered at Glamis.
On the official website of Glamis castle, it says that in 1034 King Malcolm II was wounded in a battle and was taken to a Royal Hunting Lodge, where he died.
Later, the castle was built where the Hunting Lodge had been.
Since 1372 Glamis Castle was home to the Lords of Glamis.
The most famous legend is that of the Monster of Glamis.
The Monster was a very ugly disabled child who was kept hidden in the castle all his life.
It is said that his rooms were bricked up after his death.
A different version of the legend is that in every generation of the family, a vampire child is born.
The vampire children are walled up in that room.
The legend of the monster may have come from the true story of the Ogilvie family.
The Ogilvie family hid at Glamis Castle when they were trying to escape from their enemies, the Lindsays.
But they were found, and put into a small room in the walls, which are 16 feet thick.
The door was bricked up and the family were left to die of starvation.
There is a story that some visitors who were staying at the Castle tried to find the hidden rooms.
They hung towels from the windows of every room that they could find.
Then they went outside and looked up.
They could see some windows that had no towels.
They thought that these must be the windows of the hidden rooms.
Another legend tells that the monster is in Loch Calder near the castle.
There is a small chapel in the castle, with seating for 46 people.
One seat in the chapel is always kept empty for a ghost called the "Grey Lady".
The "Grey Lady" is thought to be Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis.
No one is allowed to sit in that seat.
The legend of Earl Beardie tells about how he played cards with the Devil.
The Earl was a guest in Glamis Castle.
One night he was drunk and wanted to play cards.
It was the Sunday, and no-one else wanted to play because it was a Holy Day.
Lord Beardie was so angry that he said that he would play with the Devil himself.
A stranger knocked at the castle door and asked if Lord Beardie would play cards with him.
They began to play in one of the rooms.
Later, the servants heard yelling and swearing coming from the room.
One peeped through the keyhole, but there was a flash of light through the keyhole that blinded him.
The stranger had disappeared, and had taken the Earl's soul with him.
Many people say that they have heard the shouting and the sound of dice rolling, as the Earl is still playing cards with the Devil.
Glamis in fiction
In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth murders King Duncan at Glamis Castle.
The historical ruler Macbeth of Scotland did not really live at Glamis Castle.
Glamis Castle is also in Kelley Armstrong's fantasy novel Haunted.
The legendary "Horror of Glamis" in an issue of Grant Morrison's comic book series, The Invisibles...
Glamis Castle web site
Ghosts and Hauntings in Glamis Castle
In geography, an oasis is an isolated place in the desert where there is vegetation.
Most often, this occurs around a source of water.
Oases provide a habitat for animals and are used as a source of water for humans.
The knowledge of the location of oases has been important for trade and transportation routes in desert areas.
Caravans must travel via oases so that supplies of water and food can be refilled.
Thus, political or military control of an oasis has in many cases meant control of trade on a particular route.
For example, the oases of Awjila, Ghadames and Kufra, in modern-day Libya, have at various times been vital to both North-South and East-West trade in the Sahara desert.
The word oasis came into English via Greek ὄασις , which was borrowed from Egyptian wḥ3t or Demotic wḥỉ.
It was not borrowed from Coptic ouaḥe (*/waħe/), as is sometimes suggested; the Greek word is attested several centuries before Coptic existed as a written language.
The Ancient Near East is the name given to early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq and Syria), Persia (modern Iran), Anatolia (modern Turkey), the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan), and Ancient Egypt, from the rise of Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE until the region's conquest by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, or covering both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in the region.
As such, it is a term widely used in the fields of Near Eastern archaeology, ancient history and Egyptology.
Some would exclude Egypt from the ancient Near East as a geographically and culturally distinct area.
However, because of Egypt's intimate involvement with the region, especially from the 2nd millennium BCE, this exclusion is rare.
The ancient Near East is considered the cradle of civilization.
It was the first to practice intensive year-round agriculture; it gave the rest of the world the first writing system, invented the potter's wheel and then the vehicular- and mill wheel, created the first centralized governments, law codes and empires, as well as introducing social stratification, slavery and organized warfare, and it laid the foundation for the fields of astronomy and mathematics.
Boxer is a character from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell.
He is a horse, and is nearly eighteen hands high.
In the book he is as strong as two horses put together.
He has a white stripe down his nose, and that gives him a strange appearance.
But still he was respected for his great power in work and his good character.
He works as a cart-horse, as does Clover.
Benjamin likes him in secret.
In the book Boxer falls into the quarry when he was pulling a cart full of rock and is sent to a veterinarian on another farm by Napoleon.
Squealer, Napoleon's spokesman, then claims he died peacefully, but Benjamin realises he has actually gone to the knacker's (slang for slaughterhouse, where animals are killed).
Boxer was the most hard-working animal in the farm and was respected by all.
When Boxer tried to support Snowball against Squealer, Napoleon tries to attack Boxer with his dogs but Boxer easily crushes the dog.
Boxer is an ideal character showing loyalty along with his great hard work.
"I will always work harder."
"Napoleon's always right."
He is a very loyal, caring character, but he is flawed in his lack of intelligence and does not see the real truth behind situations.
Boxer represents the loyal communist working class.
Him being slaughtered represents Stalin getting rid of the workers that are too old or too ill to participate in labour.
The windmill represents them building the Industries and Boxer getting up early represents the working class working extremely hard.
His gullibility represents the working class being gullible and doing what they are told for promises in the future.
His slogan “I will work harder” represents the working class's belief in Communism. “
Napoleon is always right” represents their trust in the political system.
In the fictional story Animal Farm, Benjamin is the oldest animal on Manor Farm, and very cool-tempered.
He seldom speaks, except to make some cynical remark.
He is the only animal on the farm that never laughs, saying that there was nothing to laugh at when asked about it.
Without admitting it, Benjamin is devoted to Boxer, grazing with him in a small padlock near the orchard on Sundays.
He was not changed by the rebellion that took place towards the beginning of the novel.
The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in the United States in October 1977.
The Atari 2600 was originally called the Atari Video Computer System (or VCS).
The Atari 2600 uses game cartridges which can be swapped in and out to change games, which was a new idea in video games at the time.
Over 30 million Atari 2600 consoles were sold.
While Atari designed their console, they code-named it Stella.
When released in 1977, they called it the Video Computer System (VCS for short).
There was also a version that was sold at Sears called the Sears Video Arcade.
It was not called the Atari 2600 until the Atari 5200 released in 1982.
The 2600 is called this because that is the part number the company used to tell the difference in versions.
When the Atari 2600 came out, it usually came with two joystick controllers, a pair of paddle controllers, and a game cartridge.
There were initially nine games available at launch, featuring Combat (packaged with the console), Air-Sea Battle, Basic Math, Blackjack, Indy 500, Star Ship, Street Racer, Surround, and Video Olympics.
The 2600 originally sold for $199.
Colors and graphics
In North America, the NTSC format is used, which has 128 colors.
In many parts of Europe, the PAL format is used, which has 104 colors.
A third format, called SECAM, was used in France; it only has 8 colors: black, blue, pink, mauve, neon green, sea-foam, yellow and white.
When the Atari 2600 was released nine games were available.
Those games were Combat (which came with the console), Air-Sea Battle, Basic Math, Blackjack, Indy 500, Star Ship, Street Racer, Surround, and Video Olympics.
Later more games came out, including Pac-Man, Missile Command and Space Invaders.
The best-selling Atari 2600 game was Pac-Man, which sold 7 million copies.
Combat was chosen to be included in the box with the Atari 2600.
It contained 27 games in one cartridge.
Each game involved tanks, bi-planes, or jets.
Space Invaders began  as an intensely popular Japanese arcade game.
In 1980 a version of the game was released for the Atari 2600.
The pixelated aliens from this game are still used as a popular symbol for video games today.
Pac-Man began as an arcade game developed by Namco.
In 1982 a version was released for the Atari 2600.
It sold the most copies of any game released for the Atari 2600 (7 million copies).
Despite this, the game was not popular with critics and consumers, because of the major differences in gameplay between the 2600 version and the arcade version.
See List of Atari 2600 Games for a bigger list of games.
Third-party Game Development
In 1980 the Atari 2600 was at the middle of an important development in video games, the beginning of third-party developers for console video games.
In 1980 a group of four dissatisfied Atari employees founded the company Activision, who then released four games: Dragster, Fishing Derby, Checkers, and Boxing.
This was an important moment in video game history as now every video game console on the market depends on some third-party game support.
Atari Emulators
Today those who want to play the games designed for the 2600 do not have to try to find the original console and cartridge as many of the games have been recreated in video game emulators.
One such emulator, Stella, will function on most any operating system.
After downloading this emulator users can download games from other websites and use this program to play them.
Atari Jr
In 1986, a cheaper version of the Atari 2600 was released.
Some people called this the Atari 2600 Junior.
It was smaller than the original version.
This system cost $50.
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The  is a video game console made in 1986.
It was not very popular in North America and Japan but was very popular in Brazil.
One of the most popular game of the Sega Master System was Sonic the Hedgehog.
, the Master System was still in production in Brazil by Tectoy.
This would make it the world's longest-lived console.
The console was redesigned as the "Master System", and it was released in North America in 1986 at a price of $200 ().
It included a multicart of the games Hang-On and Safari Hunt.
By the end of 1986, 125,000 Master System consoles had been sold.
This was more than the Atari 7800's 100,000, but it was less than the NES's 1.1 million.
The console was re-released as the Master System in Japan in October 1987 for ¥16,800.
It still sold poorly as did the Mark III.
Neither model posed a serious challenge to Nintendo in Japan.
Transition to Genesis and decline
Sega released the Mega Drive, a 16-bit video game console, in Japan on October 29, 1988.
The last game released for the Mark III/Master System in Japan was Bomber Raid in 1989.
By early 1992, Master System production stopped in North America.
By that time, between 1.5 million and 2 million units had been sold in the United States.
The Master System was eventually a success in Europe.
In Europe,  it sold more than the NES by a lot.
As late as 1993, the Master System's active installed user base in Europe was 6.25 million units.
That was larger than that of the Mega Drive's 5.73 million base that year.
Combined with the Mega Drive, Sega had the majority of the console user base in Europe that year.
Continued success in Brazil
The Master System has had continued success in Brazil.
In Brazil, new versions have continued to be released.
Tectoy has been manufacturing Master Systems since 1989.
These versions include the Master System Compact and the Master System 3.
In 2015, it was reported that the Master System sells around 150,000 units per year in Brazil.
By 2016, the Master System had sold 8 million units in Brazil.
Because Tectoy continued to produce the Master System years for so long, the Master System is considered the longest-lived in the history of video game consoles.
It is estimated that 13 million Master Systems were sold.
This does not include recent Brazil sales.
A remote control is a device used to issue commands (controlling it) from a distance to televisions, DVD players, doorbells  and so on.
A remote controller does not have a wire and can be held by hand.
It has buttons for volume, changing television channels and more.
Infrared or radio signals are used to communicate with the devices.
Batteries make remote controls and controllers work.
Mostly AAA, AA or coin battery size batteries are used.
is one of the first known video games.
It was released in 1962.
It was made by Steve Russell and others.
In this game, the player has to shoot the other spaceships while flying around a star.
The ships shoot missiles (rockets) which were unaffected (nothing happened) by the gravity.
Each ship had only a few missiles and only a little bit of fuel.explode.
Giotto di Bondone (c.1267–January 8 1337), usually known as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence.
He is generally thought of as the first in a line of great artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Giovanni Villani, who lived at the same time as Giotto, wrote that he was the king of painters, who drew all his figures as if they were alive.
Villani says that, because he was so clever, the city of Florence gave him a salary.
In the 16th century, the biographer Giorgio Vasari says that Giotto changed painting from the Byzantine style of other artists of his day, and brought to life the great art of painting as it was made by the later Renaissance painters like Leonardo da Vinci.
This was because Giotto drew his figures from life, rather than copying the style them from old well-known pictures in the way that the Byzantine artists like Cimabue and Duccio did.
Giotto's greatest work is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, finished around 1305.
The building is sometimes called the "Arena Chapel" because it is on the site of an Ancient Roman arena.
This fresco series shows the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ.
It is thought of as one of the greatest masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.
Although Vasari wrote about Giotto's life, it is not known how many of the stories are true, because Vasari was writing more than 200 years after Giotto died.
Only two things are known for certain.
It is known that in 1334 Giotto was chosen by the "commune" (town council) of Florence to design the bell tower next to Florence Cathedral which was being built at that time.
It is also known for certain that Giotto painted the "Arena Chapel".
But no-one can be certain where he was born, who his teacher was, what he looked like, whether he really painted the famous frescos at Assisi or where he was buried when he died.
Giotto was probably born in a hilltop farmhouse, perhaps at Colle di Romagnano or Romignano.
He was the son of a well-respected man named Bondone.
His name Giotto might have been a nickname from Ambrogiotto (little Ambrose) or Angelotto (little Angelo).
The year of his death is 1337, but the year of his birth (1267) is based on a poem by Antonio Pucci, the town crier of Florence, who said that Giotto was seventy when he died.
Some people think that Pucci just used seventy because it fitted the rhyme of his poem, and that perhaps Giotto was a quite different age when he died.
In his Lives of the Artists, Giorgio Vasari tells the story of how Giotto was a shepherd boy, a merry and intelligent child who was loved by all who knew him.
One day the great Florentine painter Cimabue passed by and saw him drawing pictures of his sheep on a rock.
They were so lifelike that Cimabue asked Bondone if he could take the boy as an apprentice.