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The reservoir on the Verzasca river is made by the Verzasca Dam, built 1961-1965.
The water surface area is 1.68 km2
Alt St. Johann was a municipality in Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2010 the former municipalities of Alt St. Johann and Wildhaus merged into the new municipality of Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann.
Former municipalities of St. Gallen
Villages in St. Gallen
Mika Pohjola (born December 1, 1971, in Helsinki, Finland) is a jazz pianist and composer.
Mika Pohjola lived in Vantaa, Finland, outside Helsinki until 1987.
He started studying piano and music theory with his father, Heikki Pohjola in 1979.
In 1982, he started singing in the Helsinki cathedral boy choir, Cantores Minores.
He then studied classical piano, music theory and counterpoint at the Vantaa Music Institute.
After completing his classical studies, Pohjola moved to Stockholm, Sweden to study jazz music.
He met Alvaro Is Rojas while studying at the Södra Latin Gymnasium.
Is Rojas taught him piano improvisation and jazz ear-training for five years.
Pohjola received a Master's Degree in Jazz Education at the Royal Swedish College of Music in 1992.
Encouraged by Alvaro Is Rojas, Pohjola moved to Boston, Massachusetts to study at Berklee College of Music.
His teachers included Herb Pomeroy, Gary Burton, Phil Wilson, Ed Bedner and Hal Crook.
Pohjola also met many new music collaborators, such as Johanna Grüssner, Matt Penman, Roberto Dani, Fernando Huergo, Sophie Dunér and Yusuke Yamamoto.
Pohjola graduated from Berklee with honors in 1994.
That same year he recorded his first album, Myths and Beliefs (GM Recordings) produced by Gunther Schuller.
In 1995, Pohjola moved to New York City and became a part of the downtown jazz scene.
He briefly studied with pianist Sal Mosca.
Pohjola performed at New York clubs such as the Blue Note, Birdland, the Five Spot, Smalls, The Jazz Standard and Visiones.
His many bands featured saxophonists Chris Cheek, Mark Turner and Miguel Zenón, guitarist Ben Monder, bassists Matt Penman, Johannes Weidenmüller and Fernando Huergo, drummers Roberto Dani, Marlon Browden, Darren Beckett, Matt Wilson and Mark Ferber.
In the 1990s, Pohjola often toured Europe, and performed in his native Finland, Sweden, Denmark, The United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
Pohjola was also invited to play in Ukraine in 1999, 2001 and 2002.
In 2002 to 2005 Pohjola spent much time in his own recording studio, documenting ambitious arrangements of Scandinavian traditional and popular music.
He released the catalogue of the original Moomin music on Moomin Voices (2003 in Swedish; 2005 in Finnish).
His main collaborators included vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Rigmor Gustafsson, Lisa Werlinder, Sanni Orasmaa and Eeppi Ursin; and instrumentalists Alan Ferber, David Ambrosio, Christof Knoche, Laura Arpiainen and Ayumi Takeshima.
He also recorded Scandinavian Christmas music on Scandinavian Yuletide Voices (2005), and a tribute to the Finnish legendary tango composer, Toivo Kärki on the album, Leivonen lumimyrskyssä (A Lark in a Snowstorm) (2006).
Pohjola has since 1995 been a jazz piano principal at the Nilsiä Music Camp in Finland.
Additionally, he has been a guest lecturer at many conservatories in Scandinavia.
In 2006 Pohjola was invited as a lecturer to Berklee College of Music as a major visiting artist.
Pohjola plays chacarera and jazz compositions with Argentinean bassist and composer Fernando Huergo.
Pohjola also leads several groups in Finland, such as the popular Moomin Voices (in Finnish Muumilauluja-bändi) which often performs at children's events and festivals.
Arranger and Producer
Jazz Composer and Pianist
Co-leader and Sideman
Moomin Voices
Scandinavian Music
Mika Pohjola at All About Jazz
Mika Pohjola at All Music Guide
Mika Pohjola at CD Baby
Musicians from Helsinki
Zug is a small town in Switzerland.
It is at the northeastern corner of Lake Zug.
Stadt Zug - Official website
Company registration in Zug
Municipalities of Zug
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program, first developed in mid-2001 by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc., to use for uploading and downloading files under the BitTorrent protocol.
In the protocol, a "Tracker" hosts information about any active computers which are trying to share data.
Trackers are used to find other active computers, but do not store or share file data.
Using the .torrent files, BitTorrent users can "Leech" (download) the files.
Once a "Leecher" gets 100% of the file(s), they become a "Seeder" and helps "Seed" (upload) the files to other Leechers.
BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol.
Before version 6.0, BitTorrent was written in Python, and was free software.
The source code for versions up to and including 3.4.2 were distributed under the MIT license and versions 4.x and 5.x were released under the BitTorrent Open Source License, a modified version of the Jabber Open Source License.
Since version 6.0, BitTorrent is a rebranded version of µTorrent.
As a result, its source is closed.
BitFlu
KTorrent
QTorrent
Rtorrent
µTorrent
The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen in the summer of 2002.
Most of the other clients are based in part on BitTorrent.
Programs that use BitTorrent protocol are:
Anatomic P2P
Arctic Torrent
BiglyBT
BitLet
BitPump
BitTorrent 5 / Mainline
BitTorrent 6
Bits on Wheels
BitTyrant
Blizzard Downloader
Blog Torrent
BTPD
BTSharp (library)
burst!
CTorrent
Folx
freeloader
G3 Torrent
Gnome BitTorrent
MonoTorrent (client library)
MooPolice
sharktorrent
SymTorrent
Torrent Swapper
TorrentVolve
Turbo Torrent
TorrentSpy Rufus
XTorrent
ZipTorrent
Comparison of file sharing applications
Comparison of BitTorrent clients
The Bali Nine is the name of the nine Australian citizens arrested and convicted for drug trafficking on April 17, 2005, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.
The group tried to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin valued at about 4 million AUD from Indonesia to Australia.
Members of the group are: Andrew Chan, Si Yi Chen, Michael Czugaj, Renae Lawrence, Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, Matthew Norman, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Myuran Sukumaran.
All of them are between ages 18 and 28 at the time of their arrests.
After the trial, two of the Bali Nine received death sentences, and the others got 20 years or life sentences.
Renae Lawrence finished serving her 20-year sentence in Kerobokan Prison together with Schapelle Corby.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed by firing squad on 29 April 2015.
Australian drug dealers
A eunuch is a castrated man.
His genitals have been removed.
This can be cutting off the testicles or removing the penis and the testicles.
Over the millennia since, eunuchs had a lot of different functions in different cultures such as domestics, treble singers, religious specialists, government officials, military commanders, and guardians of women or harem servants.
When eunuchs ran a harem, a monarch could be sure he was the one who fathered his wives' children since real eunuchs were always infertile.
English translation of Rudople Guilland's essay on Byzantine eunuchs "Les Eunuques dans l'Empire Byzantin: Étude de titulature et de prosopographie Byzantines", in 'Études Byzantines', Vol.
I (1943), pp.
197-238.
with many examples
Eunuchs in Pharaonic Egypt
Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China
"Born Eunuchs" Home Page and Library
The ANTARES Experiment is a telescope that is built at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
But it is not a normal telescope that uses light to see distant objects.
Instead, it uses neutrinos, very small and light particles that can fly through the earth.
The name comes from Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch project.
There is also a star called Antares.
It uses 900 light sensors attached to 12 strings that float in the sea to detect neutrinos.
The strings are held onto the sea floor by an anchor and straight up by a buoy floating in the sea.
Although the neutrinos are invisible, they can create a different particle, a muon, in water.
The muon then gives off light by the Cherenkov effect because it travels faster than light in water.
The sensors are so sensitive that they need only very little light and can even detect single photons.
This is necessary because the muons produce only very little light.
The detector is located in the Mediterranean, about 40 kilometres off Toulon in southern France.
There the sea is 2500 metres deep.
It is built by a group of physicists from 12 European countries.
Currently, 10 strings are running.
The last two strings will be installed in May 2008.
It is the largest neutrino detector in the Northern hemisphere.
Two similar detectors are located in the ice of the South Pole (AMANDA and IceCube).
ANTARES home -
Cherenkov radiation, also known as Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation (; Russian: Черенков) is a type of electromagnetic radiation produced by charged particles when they pass through an optically transparent medium at a speed which is greater than the speed of light in that medium. (
It doesn't violate special relativity because the refractive index slows down the speed of light in a medium.
So, the particle doesn't have to travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.)
It is named after Pavel Alekseyevich Čerenkov, who discovered this phenomenon in 1934 under the supervision of Sergey Vavilov.
Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank developed a theory on this effect in 1937.
Pavel Čerenkov, Igor Tamm and Ilya Frank shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics because of their contribution in cherenkov radiation.
According to special relativity, a particle cannot move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.
However, when light travels in a transparent medium (such as water or glass), it moves more slowly than it would in a vacuum.
This means that particles can actually move faster than the speed of light in certain mediums.
When a particle with an electric charge moves faster than light in a medium which can be polarized, it causes the medium to send out photons (light particles) and thereby loses energy.
The photons that are sent out can be measured, as they are simple light.
When an aircraft passes through the air, it creates a series of pressure waves in front of the aircraft and behind it.
These waves travel at the speed of sound and, as the speed of the object increases, the waves get compressed as they cannot get out of each other's way quickly enough.
When the aircraft gets the velocity of sound wave, the pressure waves get merge into a single shock wave.
As the velocity keeps increasing, the single shock wave extends mostly to the rear and extends from the craft in a restricted widening cone.
We hear this as sonic boom.
Similarly, a bow wave forms when something moves through a fluid at a speed greater than the speed of a wave moving across the fluid.
The mechanism of Cherenkov radiation is same but it occurs for light waves.
When a charged particle moves inside a polarizable medium, it excites some the ellectrons of that medium.
As the excited ellectrons return to their ground state, they emits electromagnetic radiation.
According to the Huygens principle, the emitted waves move out spherically at the phase velocity of that medium.
If the particle moves faster than the speed of light in that medium, the emitted waves add up and at an angle with respect to the particle direction a radiation is emitted which is known as Cherenkov radiation.
Because nothing can move faster than light in a vacuum, there is no Cherenkov light in a vacuum.
However, if we say that light in water moves only with 75% of its speed in vacuum, particles with very high energy are now able to move faster than light (through water) and create Cherenkov light.
The reason Cherenkov light often appears blue is because its effect is proportional to the frequency, in that the higher the frequency, the higher the effect of the radiation.
Because higher frequency light equates to shorter wavelengths, and blue light has one of the shortest wavelengths of visible light, Cherenkov light is usually blue.
Emission angle
Emission angle with respect to the first image
In the first image, a charged particle (red) moves at a speed of  where
Left side of this image is the initial point (t = 0) and the right side is the location of the particle after t time।
So, the distance passed by the particle in t time is
Only municipalities with independent administration and that have the Stadtrecht (city rights) are included.
Lists of settlements in Europe
The foot-pound force (symbol: ft·lbf), or simply foot-pound (symbol: ft·lb), is a unit of energy and also a unit of torque.
By definition it is one foot times one pound-force.
Unit of energy
As a unit of energy, one foot-pound is the energy it takes to push with one pound-force one pound for a distance of one  foot.
1.3558179483314004 joules (exactly)
13558179.483314004 ergs (exactly)
~0.001285067 British Thermal Unit IT
~0.323832 calorie IT (calIT)
~0.000323832 "food calorie" (kcal or Cal)
~32.174049 foot-poundals (ft pdl)
Unit of torque
1.3558179483314004  newton metre (exactly)
Dachau - a town in Bavaria, Germany
Dachau (district) - a rural district in Bavaria, Germany
Dachau Concentration Camp - a Nazi Concentration Camp, near Dachau
Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach (also known as Aeschlen) is a former municipality of the district Konolfingen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
On 1 January 2010 the municipality of Aeschlen bei Oberdiessbach merged into the municipality of Oberdiessbach.
Former municipalities of Bern
The district of Büren is a district of the Swiss canton of Bern.
Its capital is Büren an der Aare.
The district of Burgdorf in the Swiss canton of Bern has 24 municipalities in an area of 197 km²:
Budai (Chinese:布袋), pronounced Hotei in Japanese, also known as the Laughing Buddha, was a Buddhist monk in China.
Many Chinese Buddhists believe he was a reincarnation of Maitreya, the person who will become the next Buddha after Gautama Buddha.
He has become incorporated into Buddhist, Taoist and Shinto.
Images of him can be found in many temples, restaurants, and businesses.
Budai has become a god of happiness and plenty in some forms of Taoism and Buddhism.
In Japan, Hotei is one of the Seven Lucky Gods (Shichi Fukujin).
He is almost always shown smiling or laughing, hence his nickname in Chinese, the "Laughing Buddha" (Chinese:笑佛).
As Angida Arhat
Budai may be based on a monk that lived in the time of Sakyamuni Buddha.
This monk's name was Angida, whose name means calico bag.
According to legend, Angida was an Indian snake catcher who caught poisonous snakes to stop them from biting people.
Budai and Angida look similar because they are both depicted as plump, laughing and carrying a bag.
As a Chinese Buddhist monk
In the Chinese tradition, Budai was a monk who lived in China around 907 to 923 CE.
He was a man who was good and loving.
Apart from his character, his likeness with the Maitreya Bodhisattva (the future Buddha) come from a Buddhist hymn (Chinese: 偈语; Pinyin: Jiéyǔ) which he said before his death:
彌勒真彌勒，化身千百億，時時示時人，時人自不識
Maitreya, the true Maitreyahas billions of incarnations.
Often he is shown to people at the time;other times they do not recognize him.
Budai is almost always shown carrying a sack, which never empties, and is filled with many precious things, including rice plants (symbolizing wealth), sweets for children, food, and the sadness of the world.
His duty is to protect the weak, the poor and children.
In Chinese Buddhist temples, Budai's statue is put in the front part of the entrance hall.
He is shown as a stout, smiling or laughing man in robes with a largely bare belly, which represents happiness, good luck, and plenty.
Some statues show small children at his feet.
Another item that is usually seen in Budai statues, is a begging bowl, which shows that he is a Buddhist.
All of these images show Budai as a wandering monk who goes around and takes sadness from people.
Because he represents richness and happiness, statues are often found in homes and businesses in China and Japan.
Chán Buddhism
Phra Sangkadchai/ Phra Sangkachai
In Thailand Budai is sometimes confused with another monk that is respected in Thailand.
Phra Sangkadchai or Shanghai (Thai: พระสังกัจจายน์), a Thai spelling of Mahakaccayanathera (Thai: มหากัจจายนเถระ), was a Buddhist monk in the time of the Buddha.
The Buddha praised Phra Sangkadchai for his excellence in explaining complicated dharma (or dhamma) in an easily understandable way.
Although both Budai and Phra Sangkadchai may be found in both Thai and Chinese temples, Phra Sangkadchai is found more often in Thai temples, and Budai in Chinese temples.
Two points to distinguish them from one another are:
Phra Sangkadchai has a bit of hair on his head while Budai is bald.2.
Phra Sangkadchai wears the robes in Theravadin Buddhist fashion with the robes folded across one shoulder, leaving the other uncovered.
Budai wears the robes in Chinese style, covering both arms but leaving the front part of the upper body uncovered.
One belief surrounding the figure of Budai in popular folklore is that if a person rubs his belly, it brings wealth, good luck, and prosperity.
This belief however is not part of any Buddhist ritual, but is a part of a Chinese folk belief.
He is often admired for his happiness, abundance, wisdom, and contentment.
Truetao.org Information on Hotei within I Kuan Tao
An article on History of Maitreya & Hotei
In Japan, Juroujin (寿老人), also known as Gama, is one of the Seven Lucky Gods, according to Taoist beliefs.
He is the God of long life.
He has a staff and a fan.
He is shown as an old man with a long beard, and a scroll is tied to the staff, which has the lifespan of all living things written on it.
The deer, the crane and the tortoise, symbols of long life, sometimes follow him.
In computer programming, source code is (generally speaking) a text file version of a computer program or software that contains instructions that the computer follows to do something.
Source code is written in a programming language which a human can read and change.
A large program may contain many different source code files that all work together.
Source code is in many cases compiled before running it.
That means translating the code into assembly language or machine language which is much faster and easier for the computer to read, but hard for a human to read.
Another very common way is to interpret the code, without needing a compilation step, while that's generally slower.
A computer program may be open source, which means the source code is shared with anyone who wants to look at it and change it.
Many programs are however closed source, which means only the executable code is distributed and people are not allowed to look at and change the code.
Many open source programs are also compiled to such code, that may or may not be allowed to be inspected, while to change it is most convenient to change the source code that came with it, or possibly can be downloaded.
Example of C source code
When compiled by a C compiler and executed, this will print "Hello world!"
on the computer screen and then finish.
Legendary Pokémon are very rare Pokémon in the Pokémon world.
Characters in the series often claim that very few people have seen them.
They are hard to catch, and are stronger than most other Pokémon.
They have powers that other Pokémon do not have.
In the games some roam around, while others stay in one spot until the trainer knocks it out or captures it.
If the player defeats a legendary Pokémon, they will often not be available again, because there is only one of them, in rare cases they might reappear after certain conditions are met.
Because of this, players usually save their game before going to battle the Pokémon.
The Master Ball and Ultra Ball are popular choices for catching legendary Pokémon.
But legendary Pokémon can also be caught with a normal Poké Ball.
It is often advised to catch a legendary Pokémon with a Quick Ball since a Quick Ball has a high capture rate at the beginning of a battle.
Legendary Pokémon typically have a 3/255 catch rate with Ultra Balls, and 1/255 catch rate with regular Poké Balls.
There are about 900 Pokémon.
These Pokémon are in the Kanto region, which appears in Pokémon Red and Blue, and its related games.
- An Ice/Flying-type Pokémon.
It is the first Legendary Bird.
Articuno is in the Seafoam Islands of Kanto.
It is also one of the shadow Pokémon in Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness used by Greevil.
It is also seen flying around Sinnoh in Pokémon Platinum after the player talks to Prof. Oak, and in Kalos in Pokémon X and Y if the player chose Chespin.
When released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Articuno will use a Blizzard attack that freezes any opponent.
- An Electric/Flying-type Pokémon.
It is the second Legendary Bird.
Zapdos is in the Power Plant in Kanto.
It is also seen flying around Sinnoh in Pokémon Platinum after the player talks to Prof. Oak, and in Kalos in Pokémon X and Y if the player chose Fennekin.
When released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Zapdos uses a powerful Thunder Shock that attacks several times.
- A Fire/Flying-type Pokémon.
It is the third Legendary Bird.
Moltres is in the Victory Road in early games.
In FireRed and LeafGreen, Moltres is in Mount Ember on the first Sevii Island.
It is also seen flying around Sinnoh in Pokémon Platinum after the player talks to Prof. Oak, and in Kalos in Pokémon X and Y if the player chose Froakie.
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver it is in Mt. Silver.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee or Brawl when released from a Poké Ball, Moltres will flap its wings, burning players.
It will then fly away.
A Psychic-type Pokémon.
Players can get Mewtwo in the Cerulean Cave in Kanto (except in games based on Gold and Silver) or in the Unknown Dungeon in Kalos, both of which open after defeating the Elite Four.
Mewtwo is a character in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash bros 4 and uses the moves Shadow Ball, Confusion, Teleport, and Disable.
In Pokémon X and Y, Mewtwo gained the ability to Mega Evolve into two different forms: Mega Mewtwo X, which is more physically based than normal Mewtwo, and Mega Mewtwo Y, which has the highest Special Attack of any Pokémon,
- A Psychic-type Pokémon.
Mew can only be obtained through special events or by using a cheating device like a Gameshark.
In the Super Smash Bros. series, when released from a Poké Ball, Mew will give the players bonus points, and fly away.
In Brawl it can drop a CD.
Johto
These Pokémon are in the Johto region, which appears in Pokémon Gold and Silver, and its related games.
is a Electric-type Pokémon.
It roams after the player makes them leave from Ecruteak City's Burned Tower.
It appears in Kanto in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen if the player started off with Squirtle, but, due to an error with roaming wild Pokémon in these games, will have lower stats than other Pokémon.
When released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Raikou releases a powerful Spark attack that shocks any opponents that get caught in it.
is a Fire-type Pokémon.
It appears in Kanto in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen if the player started off with Bulbasaur, but, due to an error with roaming wild Pokémon in these games, will have lower stats than other Pokémon.
When released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Melee or Brawl, Entei unleashes a volcanic Fire Spin that deals a lot of damage to any opponents that get trapped in it.
is a Water-type Pokémon.
In Pokémon Crystal it goes to the Tin Tower instead of roaming.
It appears in Kanto in FireRed and LeafGreen if the player started off with Charmander but, due to an error with roaming wild Pokémon in these games, will have lower stats than other Pokémon.
When released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Melee, Suicune unleashes a blast of Icy Wind that causes high levels of damage.
Suicune returns in Brawl but with a different attack, Aurora Beam.
Lugia is a Psychic/Flying-type Pokémon, and is the mascot of Pokémon Silver.
It also appears in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Wii U as a Pokeball.
It the Pokémon represented by the silver wing which is shown in Johto.
Ho-Oh is a Fire/Flying-type Pokémon that is said to grant a person it's greatest desire by flying over the person.
Ho-oh has flown over Ash Ketchem before, some say this is why he does not age in the series.
This Pokémon is the mascot of Pokémon Gold.
It also appeared in the first episode of the anime.
Celebi
Hoenn
These Pokémon are in the Hoenn region, which appears in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, and its related games.
Regirock
Regice
Registeel
Latias is a Dragon/Psychic type Pokémon.
In most games Sapphire, as a Roaming Pokémon (In Ruby, Latios will appear instead, but an event item allows you to go to an island where it is catchable.
Also, there is an error in Sapphire that causes Roaming Pokémon to have lower stats than other Pokémon), Emerald (You get a choice after the Elite Four.
The error was fixed in Emerald.),
HeartGold (Latios appears in SoulSilver), and White 2 (Latios appears in Black 2).
It has its own special item, which it shares with its counterpart.
It also obtained a Mega Evolution in X and Y, but there was no way to obtain the Mega Stone needed until the next set of games.
Latias has higher defensive stats than its counterpart.
Latios is a Dragon/Psychic type Pokémon.
In most games (Ruby, as a Roaming Pokémon (In Sapphire, Latias will appear instead, but an event item allows you to go to an island where it is catchable.
Also, there is an error in Ruby that causes Roaming Pokémon to have lower stats than other Pokémon), Emerald (You get a choice after the Elite Four.
SoulSilver (Latias appears in HeartGold), and Black 2 (Latias appears in White 2).
Latios has higher offensive stats than its counterpart.
It is in the Cave of Origin in Pokémon Sapphire, and Marine Cave in Pokémon Emerald.
In Pokémon HeartGold Kyogre is at the Hidden Tower after the player gets the Blue Orb.
After being released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Kyogre opens its mouth and squirts out a stream of water.
The water is non-damaging, but causes characters to be knocked back with lots of force.
Touching Kyogre's body will do damage.
Kyogre also appears as a trophy.
is a Ground-type Pokémon.
It is in the Cave of Origin in Pokémon Ruby, and Terra Cave in Pokémon Emerald.
In Pokémon SoulSilver Groudon is at the Hidden Tower after the player gets the Red Orb.
After being released from a Poké Ball in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it uses Overheat causing anyone to come into contact with it to be set on fire and sent flying.
Due to its huge size, it takes up a lot of the stage, making its attack hard to avoid.
is a Dragon/Flying-type Pokémon.
In Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, it is in Sky Pillar.
In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver Rayquaza is at the Hidden Tower after the player gets the Green Orb from Professor Oak, by showing him a Groudon and Kyogre that were obtained in HeartGold and SoulSilver.
Rayquaza shows up in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a boss in the game's story mode.
Jirachi
Deoxys
Sinnoh
These Pokémon are in the Sinnoh region, which appears in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, and its related games.
Uxie
Mesprit
Azelf
is a Steel/Dragon-type Pokémon.
Dialga appears as a stage Pokémon in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
It affects the stage by slowing down time, and even going off of its post to attack the players in the middle.
It can also distort the stage, as well as shoot beams.
is a Water/Dragon-type Pokémon.
Palkia appears as a stage Pokémon in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
It uses its powers to distort the stage however possible.
Some examples include tilting the stage, turning the stage completely upside down and reversing the screen itself (the last two will cause the movement controls to be reversed temporarily).
It often shoot beams in the cave below, dealing a lot of damage to the players that get caught in the blast.
Heatran
Regigigas
Giratina is a Ghost/Dragon type Pokémon with two forms- an Altered Form, which is its form in most cases, and has higher defensive statistics, and an Origin Form, which is its form if it is in the Distortion World, or holding a certain item.
Due to this item and the Distortion World not existing in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, a Giratina in those games can only be in Altered Form.
Cresselia
Phione
Manaphy
Darkrai is a dark type Pokémon.
In another language, rai means the word dark.
Darkrai could either mean dark dark or dark cry.
Either way, it's name is not welcoming.
Shaymin
Arceus is known as the God of Pokémon.
In Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, it can only be awakened through a special event where the player receives an Azure Flute, which was never released in any area of the world.
The player then enters the Hall of Origin, battles Arceus and can try to catch it.
Arceus has also been distributed multiple times, and there is an event in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver that involves an Arceus received through one of these events, even though the Azure Flute is cheating-only.
Arceus has the highest base-stat total (720) of all non-Mega Evolved Pokémon.
Unova
These Pokémon are in the Unova region, which appears in Pokémon Black and White and Pokémon Black 2 and White 2.
Victini is the first Fire/Psychic-type Pokémon known as the Victory Pokémon.
It is a small rodent-like Pokémon with large pointed ears shaped like letter V. Victini was designed to be more appealing to women.
Victini can be obtained from a wi-fi event.
For the first month of the game's release, the Liberty Ticket can be obtained, which allows the player to find Victini.
is a Steel/Fighting-type Pokémon known as the Iron Will Pokémon.
It bears a close resemblance to a markhor.
After getting Cobalion in Mistralton Cave, Terrakion and Virizion are able to be fought.
is a Rock/Fighting-type Pokémon known as the Cavern Pokémon.
It resembles an ox.
It is at Victory Road after battling Cobalion.
is a Grass/Fighting-type Pokémon known as the Grassland Pokémon.
It resembles an antelope.
It is at Pinwheel Forest after battling Cobalion.
is a Flying-type Pokémon known as the Whirlwind Pokémon.
He is based on Fūjin, the god of wind.
Tornadus can only be encountered in Pokémon Black.
is a Electric/Flying-type Pokémon known as the Lightning Strike Pokémon.
He is based on Raijin, the god of thunder and lightning.
Thundurus can only be encountered in Pokémon White.
is a Dragon/Fire-type Pokémon known as the Vast White Pokémon, and is the mascot for Pokémon Black.
It resembles a white wyvern, with wing-shaped arms and claws.
is a Dragon/Electric-type Pokémon known as the Deep Black Pokémon, and is the mascot for Pokémon White.
It resembles a black dragon/dinosaur, with wing-like formations on its forearms.
is a Ground/Flying-type Pokémon known as the Abundance Pokémon.
He is based on Inari, the god of fertility.
Landorus can only be encountered at a location known as the Abundant Shrine if the player has both Tornadus and Thundurus in their party.
is a Dragon/Ice-type Pokémon known as  the Boundary Pokémon.
It resembles a large bipedal gray dragon with various icy appendages.
Kyurem has been shown in two forms, Black Kyurem and White Kyurem.
Keldeo is a Water/Fighting-type.
Meloetta is a Normal/Psychic Pokémon known as the melody Pokémon.
This Pokémon holds the key to the reveal glass, which is able to transform Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus into their Therian forms.
It also has a Pirouette form.
Genesect is a bug/steel Pokémon and is obtained by a WiFi event.
There is an explanation of it in Japanese.
These Pokémon are in the Kalos region, which appears in Pokémon X and Y.
is a Fairy-type Pokémon known as the Life Pokémon.
It is the mascot for Pokémon X. It resembles a deer, with X-shaped glints in its eyes and jewels on its antlers.
is a Dark/Flying-type Pokémon known as the Destruction Pokémon.
It is the mascot for Pokémon Y. It resembles the letter Y.
is a Dragon/Ground-type Pokémon known as the Order Pokémon.
Its body resembles the letter Z.
Diancie is a Rock/Fairy Pokémon known as the jewel Pokémon.
Hoopa is a Ghost/Psychic Pokémon known as the mischief Pokémon.
Volcanion a Fire/Water Pokémon known as the steam Pokémon.
Alola
These Pokémon are in the Alola region, which appears in Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon Type: Null
Silvally
Tapu Koko
Tapu Lele
Tapu Bulu
Tapu Fini
Cosmog (コスモッグ Causesmog) is a Psychic-Type Pokémon known as the Nebula Pokémon.
Cosmog is a small Pokémon with a gaseous body similar to a nebula.
It evolves into Cosmoem starting at level 43, which evolves into either Solgaleo or Lunala  starting at level 53 depending on the game it evolves in.
Cosmoem (コスモウム Causemoem) is a Psychic-Type Pokémon.
Cosmoem is a Pokémon in the shape of a translucent, dark blue orb with a starscape pattern set in a gold-colored structure, which is made up of four ellipses intersecting each other in an asterisk shape and another intersecting the former four along the middle.
It evolves from Cosmog starting at level 43 and evolves into either Solgaleo or Lunala  starting at level 53 depending on the game it evolves in.
Solgaleo (ソルガレオ, sulgaileo) is a Psychic/Steel-type Pokémon known as the Sunne Pokémon.
It is the mascot for Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Ultra Sun.
Solgaleo is a large, white Pokémon resembling a white lion.
It evolves from Cosmoem when leveled up in Pokémon Sun starting at level 53.
It is one of Cosmog's final forms, the other being Lunala.
Solgaleo is a member of the cosmic duo with Lunala.
Lunala (ルナアーラ, Lunnala'') is Psychic/Ghost-type Pokémon known as the Moone Pokémon.
It is the mascot for Pokémon Moon and Pokémon Ultra Moon.
Lunala is a large Pokémon resembling a skeletal, legless bat.
It evolves from Cosmoem when leveled up in Pokémon Moon starting at level 53.
It is one of Cosmog's final forms, the other being Solgaleo.
Lunala is a member of the cosmic duo with Solgaleo.
Necrozma is a Psychic-Type Pokémon known as the Prism Pokémon.
It is the mascot of Pokémon Ultra Sun (With Solgaleo) and Pokémon Ultra Moon (With Lunala).
Necrozma is a Pokémon whose body appears to be constructed out of black crystalline material; its disproportionately large arms have three claws jutting out of them, as well as a single large whitish crystal protruding backwards from each arm.
Its small legs bend backwards like a bird's and have three toes each.
Although it is not known to evolve, it has three other forms.
Dusk Mane Necrozma is a Psychic/Steel-type Pokémon.
It is a fusion from Solgaleo and Necrozma.
Dawn Wings Necrozma is a Psychic/Steel-type Pokémon.
It is a fusion from Lunala and Necrozma.
Ultra Necrozma is a Psychic/Dragon-type Pokémon.
Magearna
Marshadow
Zeraora
Pokémon monsters
Gilles Binchois (probably born in Mons about 1400; died Soignies, 20 September, 1460), was a Franco-Flemish composer.
His name is spelt in various ways: “Binchoys”, “Binch” or “Binche” or “Gilles de Bins”.
He is one of the earliest composers of the group known as the Burgundian School.
His style of composition had a very important influence on music at the Burgundian court.
Together with Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstaple he belongs to the greatest of 15th century composers.
He was probably born in Mons in what is now Belgium.
His father, a councillor to Duke Guillaume IV of Hainault, had a job in a church in Mons.
Nothing is known about Gilles until 1419, when he became organist at the church of Ste.
In 1423 went to live in Lille.
He may have worked as a soldier.
Sometime near the end of the 1420s he joined the court chapel of Burgundy.
He sang with the choir there.
He spent many years working at the Burgundian court.
He was not allowed much time to be away, so he did not travel much.
We know that he went to Mons in 1449 on which occasion he met Guillaume Dufay.
When he retired he went to live in Soignes.
He had a good pension.
Binchois wrote beautiful melodies which were much simpler than a lot of the music of the Middle Ages.
They are easy to sing and remember.
Many later composers used melodies by Binchois as a basis for their own masses.
Most of his secular songs are rondeaux, which became the most common song form during the century.
Binchois did not often write in strophic form.
He preferred to write music which did not follow the rhyming rhythm of the verse.
1400 births
John Dunstaple or Dunstable (born about 1390; died 24 December  1453) was an English composer who lived in the last part of the medieval era and the early part of the Renaissance.
He was one of the most famous composers in the early 15th century.
He had a lot of influence on music in England as well as on the continent.
He helped to develop the style of the Burgundian School.
Dunstaple was probably born in Dunstable, Bedfordshire around 1390.
He was well educated and he worked for the Duke of Bedford who was the fourth son of Henry IV and brother of Henry V.  He may have spent some time in France because the duke was Regent of France from 1423 to 1429, and then Governor of Normandy from 1429 to his death in 1435.
Dunstaple owned property in Normandy, and also in Cambridgeshire, Essex and London, according to tax records of 1436.
He also worked for the Duke of Gloucester.
Many composers at that time were priests, but Dunstaple was not, although he had connections with St Albans Abbey.
He was probably married.
We hardly have any original manuscripts of Dunstaple’s music.
England was a very musical country at the time, but almost all that music was destroyed between 1536 and 1540 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when Henry VIII was ruling.
Most of Dunstaple’s works which survive were works which were found on the continent, mostly in north Italy.
This shows that he must have been famous throughout Europe.
He influenced  Dufay and Binchois.
The Flemish composer and music theorist Tinctoris wrote in 1476 that he was the most important musician of new music which had started in England.
Dunstaple was one of the first to compose masses using one melody as cantus firmus.
He wrote many carols (religious songs), but we do not know which ones are by him because he did not sign his name to them.
He wrote secular music, but it has been lost.
1390 births
1453 deaths
The equal sign, equals sign, or "=" is a mathematical symbol used to indicate equality.
It looks like two parallel horizontal lines.
The equals sign is placed between the things stated to be exactly equal or the same.
Computers display the equals sign with the Unicode or ASCII character 003D (in hexadecimal).
Similar symbols
There are several symbols that can be used to say items are "approximately the same," "similar to" or "about equal."
Some of these symbols include:
"≈" (two tildes or wavy lines, often used for "approximately equal")
"⩰" (two tildes above two lines)
"≅" (one tilde above two lines, often used in modular arithmetic to state a congruence relation)
"≃" (one tilde above one line)
"~" (one wavy line, often used for mathematical relations)
"≐" (two lines with a dot above them, often used for "is defined as")
"≡" (three lines, often used for equivalence)
The Crimean War (1853–1856), also called  the Eastern War (), was fought between the Russian Empire against the French Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.
Most of the fighting, including the Battle of Balaclava, happened in Crimea, but some of it was what is now western Turkey and around the Baltic Sea.
The Crimean War is sometimes called the first "modern" war since its weaponry and tactics were used for the first time and affected all later wars.
It was also the first war to use a telegraph to give information to a newspaper quickly.
The Ottoman Empire was declining by the mid-1800s.
The war started after the Ottoman Empire decided that France, not Russia, had the right to protect Christians in the Holy Land near the area of modern-day Israel.
Russia sent an army to take part of Ottoman Romania and so the British and the French allies sent an army and a navy to help the Ottomans.
When the allies got to their camp in Gallipoli, Russia retreated and so the allies decided instead to take back Crimea, where Russia had its naval base.
Russia had taken Crimea from the Ottoman Empire in an earlier war.
The Allies won the war in Crimea but gave it back to Russia in return for Russia giving back other places and promising not to have a navy on the Black Sea.
The Crimean War was a very important point in the history of warfare since new weapons were used.
It was also the first war to be reported by the press via photography and journalists.
Another very important factor was that it was the first war with real field hospitals, which were started by Florence Nightingale.
After it lost the war, Russia decided to make changes, including increasing its development of weaponry and ending serfdom in 1861.
Austria Chronology Crimean War
France Chronology Crimean War
Great Britain Chronology Crimean War
Italy Chronology Crimean War
Russia Chronology Crimean War
Turkey Chronology Crimean War
Homophobia is the fear or poor treatment of homosexuals.
The word was created in the 1960s by a psychologist named George Weinberg.
The word "homophobia" is often used together with the word "transphobia" in documents explaining human rights violation of LGBT people by United Nations and Council of Europe.
There are events to stop homophobia, like the "gay pride parades" and "International Day Against Homophobia" on May 17.
It was first celebrated on 17 May 2005 in more than 40 countries.
Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia have developed mass media campaigns against homophobia since 2002.
In some places, it is illegal to treat people badly because they are homosexual, and it is a hate crime to hurt them for that reason.
Laws against such discrimination have been made in several countries.
Internationally, the Declaration of Montreal and the Yogyakarta Principles were adopted in 2006.
Successful strategies to prevent homophobic prejudice and bullying in schools have included teaching students about historical figures who were gay, or who suffered discrimination because of their sexuality.
A person who is homophobic may be called a homophobe.
Homophobia is often related to heterosexism, the belief that sex and love between men and women is better than other types of sex and love.
Such as sex between two men or sex between two women.
"Adam and Steve" (anti-gay slogan)
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
Tickling is to lightly touch, scratch, or rub a person or animal to make them laugh.
For most people, it causes pleasure and happiness whereas others hate it.
Tickle spots are feet, armpits, and sides of stomach.
Tickling yourself
It is believed by many that tickling yourself is very hard and by some that it is nearly impossible.
Research shows that the brain notices and senses our movements and actions.
This lets the brain prepare itself when we try to tickle ourselves.
The unexpected senses are then cancelled by our brain, so we do not feel the reaction we would have if someone else tickled us when we least expected it.
Unlike others, some people in the world know how to tickle themselves.
This is because they know the tickling spots in their body and are able to use other objects to tickle themselves.
For example, they can use a piece of tissue and rub it against their stomach to tickle themselves.
Tickling may be relaxing, but may also be painful.
Telegraph (UK) Article on "robot tickling experiment"
Boston Globe Online - Why are some people not ticklish?
Article 'Is it possible for someone to be tickled to death?'
from The Straight Dope
The English Springer Spaniel is a dog breed used as hunting dogs to retrieve animals.
It is one of many spaniel breeds.
They are clever and cheerful.
Their coat can be brown and white, black and white, or have tan spots.
They look like their cousins, the Welsh Springer Spaniel and Cocker Spaniel.
Common colors include black, brown and white.
Ottawa Hills is a village in Ohio, United States.
4,564 people lived there in 2000.
The village is a rich suburb of Toledo.
They have a police and fire department.
The high school is the second best public school in Ohio.
Ottawa Hills is 13th out of 1065 places in Ohio by average income.
The Congo River (also known as Zaire River) is the largest river in Africa.
Its overall length of 4,700 km (2,922 miles) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile).
The river and its tributaries flow through the second largest rain forest area in the world, second only to the Amazon Rainforest in South America.
The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon.
Its watershed is a little larger than that of the Mississippi River.
Because large parts of the river basin sit north and south of the equator, its flow is steady, as there is always at least one river having a rainy season.
The Congo gets its name from the old Kingdom of Kongo which was at the mouth of the river.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, both countries sitting along the river's banks, are named after it.
From 1971 to 1997, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was called Zaire and its government called the river the Zaire River.
The sources of the Congo are in the Highlands and mountains of the East African Rift, as well as Lake Tanganyika and Lake Mweru, which feed the Lualaba River.
This then becomes the Congo below Boyoma Falls.
The Chambeshi River in Zambia is usually taken as the source of the Congo because of the accepted practice worldwide of using the longest tributary, as with the Nile River.
The Congo flows mostly west from Kisangani just below the falls, then slowly bends southwest, passing by Mbandaka, joining with the Ubangi River, and running into the Pool Malebo (Stanley Pool).
Kinshasa (formerly Léopoldville) and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, where the river narrows and falls through a few cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
History of exploration
The mouth of the Congo was visited by Europeans in 1482, by the Portuguese Diogo Cão, and in 1817, by a British exploration under James Kingston Tuckey that went up the river as far as Isangila.
Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to travel along the whole river.
Although the Livingstone Falls stop ships coming in from the sea, almost all of the Congo is navigable in parts, especially between Kinshasa and Kisangani.
Railways cross the three major falls that interrupt navigation, and much of the trade of central Africa passes along the river.
Goods include copper, palm oil, sugar, coffee, and cotton.
The river can also be valuable for hydroelectric power, and Inga Dams below Pool Malebo have been built.
In February of 2005, South Africa's state owned power company, Eskom, said that they had a proposal to increase the amount of electric power that the Inga can make through improvements and the building of a new hydroelectric dam.
The project would bring the highest output of the dam to 40 GW, twice that of China's Three Gorges Dam.
Nzadi
Nsele (south side of Pool Malebo)
Kasai (between Fimi and Congo, known as Kwa)
Fimi
Lukenie
Likouala
Ubangi
Uele
Luvua
The Congo River was the location the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
Some reading
Tim Butcher: Blood River - A Journey To Africa's Broken Heart, 2007.
H. Winternitz, East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire (1987)
Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law  See Congo (or Zaïre) River.
Peace Palace Library
Information and a map of the Congo's watershed
Map of the Congo River basin at Water Resources eAtlas
Geography of the Republic of the Congo
Breast reduction is a plastic surgery to make human breasts smaller.
The doctor takes out fat, skin, and glands.
It is done on women most of the time, but men can also get it.
In 2005, more than 113,000 women had breast reductions.
A Bachelor of Arts or BA is a college degree.
It takes three years to get it in Australia, Austria, Denmark,  Estonia, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Quebec, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, and Switzerland.
It takes four years in Canada, Republic of Ireland, Scotland, Japan, United States, Republic of Korea, and the Philippines.
Bachelor of Arts is often written as "BA" or "B.A." The Latin term is artium baccalaureus so some colleges use the abbreviation of "AB" or "A.B."
Izanami is a goddess of both creation and death in Japanese mythology.