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The Sea of Monsters received good reviews and was nominated for many awards such as the 2006 Book Sense Top Ten Summer Pick  and the 2009 Mark Twain Award.
It was released as an audiobook on September 6, 2006.
The Sea of Monsters is followed by The Titan's Curse, which is the third book of the five in the series.
Like the first book, The Lightning Thief, this novel is of the fantasy genre.
Reviewers have called it a "fast paced" book  with humor and action, which discusses acceptance and family love.
Percy Jackson is a 13 year-old demigod.
He is playing dodgeball against large seventh graders.
He discovers they are Laistrygonians (a kind of monster in Greek mythology).
They try to kill Percy with explosive fireballs.
He is protected by Tyson, a friend.
The Laistrygonians' fireballs do nothing to Tyson, which surprises Percy.
Annabeth rescues Percy and takes Percy and Tyson to Camp Half-Blood.
They find the camp is under attack.
This is because Thalia's tree, which protects the camp, has been poisoned by an unknown intruder.
Chiron, the activities director, has been sacked.
This is because he is suspected to have poisoned the tree.
He is replaced by Tantalus, a spirit from the Fields of Punishment.
Percy finds out that Tyson is a Cyclops.
Poseidon claims Tyson as his son, making him Percy's half-brother.
Annabeth and Percy ask Tantalus to send somebody on to find the Golden Fleece (the wool of a golden-haired sheep in Greek mythology).
Tantalus sends Clarisse, the daughter of the god of war, Ares, to get the Fleece.
Poseidon gives Percy and his friends three Hippocampi.
Together with Annabeth and Tyson, Percy find a cruise ship called the Princess Andromeda.
They discover it is owned by Luke.
They are captured by Luke in the ship.
There, they learn that Luke is trying to reform Kronos.
Kronos is an evil Titan lord.
They manage to escape from the ship.
Later, they are saved by Clarisse.
Clarisse was traveling on her own boat.
Her father, Ares, had given her the boat as a gift.
The boat is destroyed when they enter the Sea of Monsters.
The book says that mortals know the Sea of Monsters as the Bermuda Triangle.
Along the way, they land at the island of Circe, a magician.
She changes Percy into a guinea pig.
Annabeth saves Percy and they manage to leave in a ship.
They pass the land of the Sirens.
Annabeth knows that the Sirens tell a person of their innermost wishes.
She tells Percy that she wants to listen to the Sirens' songs.
So, she asks Percy to tie her to the mast of the ship.
But, Percy forgets to remove her knife.
So, she manages to free herself.
She almost manages to reach the land.
However, Percy saves her.
This way, he learns what that the Sirens' song made Annabeth see.
The monsters showed her parents together again and Luke having become good.
They are all having a picnic, in a new Manhattan, built by Annabeth.
From the Sirens' song, Annabeth understands that her fatal fault is hubris (arrogance or too much pride).
After this, they reach the island of Polyphemus.
Tyson and Clarisse help them save Grover.
They also get back the Fleece.
Annabeth is injured in the island.
But the Fleece helps her to become better.
They return to Florida on the hippocampi.
Percy sends Clarisse back to camp with the Fleece.
Then, Luke captures Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Tyson.
Percy manages to contact camp with an Iris-message.
In this way, he tricks Luke into saying he poisoned Thalia's tree.
Luke almost kills Percy in a fight.
Chiron and his relatives, the Party Ponies, save Percy and the others.
Chiron becomes the activities director again as everyone knows he is not guilty.
The Fleece cures Thalia's tree of its poison.
It even makes Thalia live again.
Percy Jackson: The protagonist of the story.
He is a 13-year-old demigod.
In the book, he travels to the island of Polyphemus.
The island is in the Sea of Monsters.
He goes to save his friend, the satyr Grover.
He also gets the Golden Fleece from the island.
This helps in saving Camp Half-Blood from being destroyed.
Annabeth and Tyson, his half-brother, go with him in this quest.
Annabeth Chase: A daughter of Athena.
She is a 13-year-old demigoddess and a friend of Percy.
She goes with him to the island.
She helps him in the quest by rescuing Percy from Circe's island.
Annabeth is injured by Polyphemus.
She becomes better with the help of the Golden Fleece.
She goes with Percy to Camp after Chiron rescues them from Luke and the Titan army.
Grover Underwood: A satyr who has been captured by Polyphemus.
This was during he was searching for the wild god Pan.
Due to his bad eyesight, Polyphemus thinks Grover is a female Cyclops.
So, Polyphemus wants to marry him.
He is saved by his friends Percy and Annabeth.
Clarisse La Rue: She is the daughter of Ares.
Tantalus gave her the task of getting the Golden Fleece to save the camp.
She is successful in her quest.
Percy and his friends help her to get the Fleece back.
Percy gives her the Fleece that she takes to Camp.
Luke Castellan: The main antagonist of the book.
He is 20-years-old and works for Kronos.
He captures Percy and his friends.
But, he is defeated by Chiron and the Party Ponies.
Tyson the Cyclops: He is Percy's half brother.
He is shown as a homeless child at first.
This is before Annabeth tells Percy he is a Cyclops.
He goes with Percy and Annabeth to the Sea of Monsters.
He becomes friends with a hippocampus.
He name it Rainbow.
When Clarisse's ship explodes, everyone thinks he is dead.
But, Rainbow, the hippocampus, saves him.
The Sea of Monsters received mostly positive reviews.
Reviewers praised the plot, the themes and the author's style of writing.
Publishers Weekly in their review said the book was better than its prequel, The Lightning Thief.
School Library Journal praised the novel's plot and its characters.
They said that  Percy was an appealing character and said readers would like the "chilling prophecy" which was a part of the plot.
Child magazine also praised the style of the book.
They said it was similar to The Lightning Thief, and added that the series would get many new readers.
Children's Literature said the writing was "extraordinary" and added, "...[t]his book, sequel to The Lightning Thief, is an amazing mixture of mythology and young adult fiction."
Matt Berman, of Common Sense Media, praised the book, saying "The Percy Jackson series continues to be pure fun, with the author doing nearly everything right to produce a book that few kids will be able to resist."
Norah Piehl of Kidsreads.com also gave a positive review.
She praised the book's style and said it was similar to the previous book in the series It sold over 100,000 copies in hardcover by the time paperback copies were released in April 2007.
However, Kirkus was not positive about the book, saying that "it's doubtful Percy wouldn't guess Tyson's otherworldly connection (his connection with the world of Greek gods) immediately after the dodgeball game [...] some of the humor will zip over the heads of the target audience" However, they praised the style of the novel, particularly the way in which Percy makes humorous comments.
2006 Book Sense Top Ten Summer Pick
2006 Child magazine Best Book
2006 Kirkus Reviews Best Fantasy Sequel
2006 Barnes & Noble Best of 2006 for Kids & Teens
2006 Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA) Top Shelf Fiction Pick for Middle School Readers
2007 Cooperative Children's Book Center choice
2007 Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Best Book for Young Adults
2009 Mark Twain Award (Riordan's The Lightning Thief won the previous year)
On September 6, 2006, a seven hour and 54 minute audiobook version of The Sea of Monsters, read by actor Jesse Bernstein was published worldwide by Listening Library.
Bernstein had also narrated The Lightning Thiefs audiobook,
AudioFile magazine praised the audiobook.
They said that the "[...]action-packed book (second in a series) will delight fans of Percy Jackson, the half-blood son of Poseidon, as Percy once again battles mythical monsters in modern-day settings while on his mission to save the tree that guards Camp Half-Blood."
They also praised Bernstein, saying "[n]arrator Jesse Berns helps listeners slip right into the oddly engaging world that Riordan creates, in which contemporary (modern) teen characters and those from classical mythology intermingle (get mixed)."
They mentioned that he could successfully portray teenagers, while keeping the pace fast.
This allowed to enjoy the book's humor.
The magazine Publishers Weekly praised Bernstein's "snappy (quick) delivery and all the right funny touches" that made the "action-packed fantasy such fun."
After the movie Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was somewhat successful, a film of The Sea of Monsters was planned.
This was reported in early 2011.
In fall 2011, it was confirmed that 20th Century Fox will release the film on March 27, 2013.
The novel was followed by The Titan's Curse, released on May 1, 2007.
In The Titan's Curse, Percy, Grover, Annabeth and Thalia go to a school to recruit two powerful demigods.
Like the earlier two books in the series, this book was well received.
Reviewers praised its humorous style and the plot of the story.
Debut is an album by Björk.
It has sold 4.7 million copies around the world.
These were "Human Behaviour", "Venus as a Boy", "Play Dead", "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy".
Most of the reviews of Debut said that it is a good album.
The video for "Human Behaviour" was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 1994 Grammy Awards.
"Human Behaviour" (Björk, Nellee Hooper) – 4:10
"Crying" (Björk, Hooper) – 4:52
"Venus as a Boy" – 4:42
"There's More to Life Than This" (Björk, Hooper) – 3:21
"Like Someone in Love" (Johnny Burke, James Van Heusen) – 4:33
"Big Time Sensuality" (Björk, Hooper) – 3:57
"One Day"  – 5:24
"Aeroplane" – 3:54
"Come to Me" – 4:55
"Violently Happy" (Björk, Hooper) – 4:59
"The Anchor Song" – 3:32
Off the Wall is an album by Michael Jackson.
5 of the 10 songs on the album were released as singles: "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", "Rock With You", "Off the Wall", "She's Out of My Life", and "Girlfriend".
Three of them had videos.
It sold over 8 million copies in the United States and 20 million copies around the world.
Rolling Stone compared his vocals to the "breathless, dreamy stutter" of Stevie Wonder and described his tenor as "extraordinary beautiful".
The first single, "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", reached No.1.
It won a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1980.
However, Jackson was disappointed at this.
He said, "It was totally unfair that it didn't get Record of the Year and it can never happen again".
Off the Wall was Jackson's first album produced by Quincy Jones.
Rolling Stone put the album at number 68 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003.
"Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" (Michael Jackson) – 6:05
"Rock with You" (Rod Temperton) – 3:40
"Workin' Day and Night" (Jackson) – 5:14
"Get On the Floor" (Jackson, Louis Johnson) – 4:39
"Off the Wall" (Temperton) – 4:05
"Girlfriend"  (Paul McCartney) – 3:05
"She's Out of My Life" (Tom Bahler) – 3:37
"I Can't Help It" (Stevie Wonder, Susaye Greene) – 4:29
"It's the Falling In Love" (featuring Patti Austin) (Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster) – 3:48
"Burn This Disco Out" (Temperton) – 3:41
Michael Jackson albums
Thriller is an album by Michael Jackson.
It was released in 1982 and is the biggest selling album of all time.
It won eight Grammy Awards, the most anyone has won at once.
In 1979 Jackson released Off the Wall.
However Jackson was not happy.
At the 1980 Grammys he won one Grammy from the album.
It was the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for the single "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".
Jackson said that "It was totally unfair that it didn't get Record of the Year and it can never happen again".
When Jackson made Thriller he wanted it to be more successful than Off the Wall.
Thriller won Record of the Year.
In October 2001 a special edition of the album was released.
It has an extra twelve tracks.
Thriller 25
In 2008 twenty-five years after its release the album was released again as Thriller 25.
It had seven extra songs: a new song, "For All Time", five remixes with Fergie, will.i.am, Kanye West, and Akon, and a clip from Vincent Price's spoken bit in the song "Thriller".
Jackson was the album's executive producer.
Jackson died in 2009.
This made people buy more of his music.
In 2009 Thriller sold 1.27 million copies in the US.
This made it the 14th best-selling album of the year.
Thriller 25th Anniversary: The Book, Celebrating the Biggest Selling Album of All Time was published.
"The Girl Is Mine" was released as the album's first single.
By 1985, it had sold 1.3 million copies.
"Billie Jean" was released as the second single.
It was number one in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland.
The album's third single "Beat It" reached number one in the Billboard 100.
It won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance.
It also won two American Music Awards.
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" reached number five in the Billboard 100.
The song was nominated for "Best R&B Song" at the 1984 Grammy Awards. "
Billie Jean" won the award instead.
"Human Nature" was released as the fifth single.
It reached number seven in the Hot 100.
"P.Y.T (Pretty Young Thing)" was Thriller's sixth single.
It reached number ten in the Hot 100.
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (Michael Jackson) – 6:02
"Baby Be Mine" (Rod Temperton) – 4:20
"The Girl Is Mine" (featuring Paul McCartney) (Jackson) – 3:42
"Thriller" (Temperton) – 5:57
"Beat It" (Jackson) – 4:19
"Billie Jean" (Jackson) – 4:54
"Human Nature" (Steve Porcaro, John Bettis) – 4:05
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (James Ingram, Quincy Jones) – 3:58
"The Lady in My Life" (Temperton) – 4:59
Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom and before the Millennials.
Commentators typically use birth years ranging from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
Many sources describe Generation X as people born between the years 1965 to 1979 (or 1980 in some references).
Bad is an album by Michael Jackson.
It was released in 1987 by Epic Records.
It is one of the 20 best-selling albums of all time and the ninth best-selling album ever in the UK.
9 out of the 11 songs on the album were released as singles, 10 had music videos, and five reached number one in the US Billboard Hot 100.
This was the most number ones an artist had ever had from one album.
The album is a mixture of R&B, pop rock and soul.
It was produced by Quincy Jones.
Rolling Stone magazine put the album at number 202 in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
The album is in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Bad won two Grammy Awards.
Jackson wanted the album to have thirty songs on it.
Quincy Jones cut this down to ten.
The CD release of Bad included "Leave Me Alone" as the eleventh song.
Davitt Sigerson, of Rolling Stone wrote that "Bad is a better record than Thriller."
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" was released as the first single from Bad.
It is a duet with Siedah Garrett.
It reached number one in the US. "
Bad" was released as the second single.
It also reached number one.
The third single was "The Way You Make Me Feel".
It was Bad'''s third number one.
Bads fourth single "Man in the Mirror" was number one.
It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. "
Dirty Diana", Bads fifth single, was also number one. "
Another Part of Me" was released as the sixth single.
It was the first single from the album to not be number one.
It reached number eleven. "
Smooth Criminal" was released as the sixth single.
It reached number seven.
In 1982 Jackson released Thriller.
It became the best-selling album ever.
Jackson wanted Bad to be even more successful and to sell 100 million copies.
Bad was the second best selling album of the 1980s in the United Kingdom.
It has sold over 45 million copies worldwide.
This makes it the eleventh best selling album ever.
Bad 25Bad 25 was released on September 18, 2012, 25 years after the album's release.
It had two CDs, the original album and a second CD with remixes and songs recorded for Bad that were not put on the record.
A documentary film about the making of Bad'' was also released in August 2012.
"Bad" (Michael Jackson) – 4:07
"The Way You Make Me Feel" (Jackson) – 4:57
"Speed Demon" (Jackson) – 4:01
"Liberian Girl" (Jackson) – 3:53
"Just Good Friends" (featuring Stevie Wonder) (Terry Britten, Graham Lyle) – 4:06
"Another Part of Me" (Jackson) – 3:54
"Man in the Mirror" (Siedah Garrett, Glen Ballard) – 5:20
"I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (featuring Siedah Garrett) (Jackson) – 4:11
"Dirty Diana" (Jackson) – 4:41
"Smooth Criminal" (Jackson) – 4:17
Dangerous is the eighth studio album by Michael Jackson, released on November 26, 1991 on Epic Records.
Dangerous has sold over 32 million albums worldwide, 8 million albums were sold in the United States alone.
It was his fastest selling album in the US.
It was the best selling album in the world of 1992.
Dangerous was the first album to be produced fully by Michael Jackson.
Since 1979, Jackson's albums had been produced by Quincy Jones.
The album has a new jack swing and R&B sound.
Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars.
The themes of the lyrics on the album include social justice, lust, romance, and religion.
9 singles were released: "Black or White", "Remember the Time", "Jam", "In The Closet", Heal the World", "Who Is It", "Will You Be There", and "Gone Too Soon". "
Dangerous" was going to be released but wasn't because of Jackson's personal problems.
The album's singles were more successful in the United Kingdom and other countries than in the United States.
The album's first single "Black or White" went to number one.
The second single was "Remember the Time".
The music video had Eddie Murphy and Iman in it.
The third single from Dangerous was "In the Closet".
It reached number six in the Billboard Hot 100.
The black British model Naomi Campbell danced with Jackson in the video.
Dangerous' fourth single "Jam" reached number twenty-six in the Billboard Hot 100.
In other countries it was more successful.
In Spain it reached number one.
Big D rapped on the song.
"Who Is It" was released as the album's fifth single.
It reached number fourteen in the Billboard Hot 100.
"Will You Be There" was on the soundtrack of Free Willy.
It features The Cleveland Orchestra.
In 2009 Michael Jackson died and lots of people bought his music. "
Dangerous" reached number 78 in the Swiss Singles Chart.
The album was nominated for four Grammy Awards. "
Will You Be There" won the MTV Movie Award for "Best Song in a Movie" in 1994.
"Jam" (featuring Heavy D) (Michael Jackson, René Moore, Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley) – 5:39  – Recorded: June 1990 – March 1991, May – October 1991
"Why You Wanna Trip on Me" (Riley, Bernard Belle) – 5:25 – Recorded: 1991
"In the Closet" (featuring Mystery Girl) (Jackson, Riley) – 6:32 – Recorded: March – May 1991
"She Drives Me Wild" (featuring Wreckx-n-Effect) (Jackson, Riley; rap lyrics by Aqil Davidson) – 3:41 – Recorded: 1990
"Remember the Time" (Riley, Jackson, Bernard Belle) – 4:00 – Recorded: March 1991
"Can't Let Her Get Away" (Jackson, Riley) – 5:00 – Recorded: 1990 – 1991
"Heal the World" (Jackson) – 6:25 – Recorded: December 1989 – June 1990, December 1990 – October 1991
"Black or White" (featuring L.T.B.) (Jackson; rap lyrics by Bill Bottrell) – 4:16 – Recorded: August 1989, June 1990 – October 1991
"Who Is It" (Jackson) – 6:34 – Recorded: 1989, 1990
"Give In to Me" (featuring Slash) (Jackson, Bill Bottrell) – 5:29 – Recorded: May – June 1990, November 1990 – October 1991
"Will You Be There" (theme from Free Willy) (Jackson) – 7:39 – Recorded: 1990 – 1991
"Keep the Faith" (Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett, Jackson) – 5:57 – Recorded: 1990
"Gone Too Soon" (Larry Grossman, Buz Kohan) – 3:24 – Recorded: 1990 – 1991
"Dangerous" (Jackson, Bottrell, Riley) – 7:00 – Recorded: September 1990 – February 1991
New jack swing albums
The Governor of the State of Kansas is the head of state for the State of Kansas.
Under the Kansas Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government.
The Governor is the Commander-in-Chief of the Kansas National Guard when not called into Federal use.
The current governor is Laura Kelly.
She started on January 14, 2019.
List of Governors
Governors of Kansas Territory
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is an American animated television series.
It was created by Maxwell Atoms.
It was originally shown on the Cartoon Network.
It began on June 13, 2003 and ended on October 12, 2008 with the finale "Underfist".
Billy - A boy with a red baseball cap, a blue and white striped t-shirt, denim pants and very comfortable white and red sneakers.
Greg Eagles as Grim Reaper, a hundred 37 thousand year old man with a Jamaican accent
R.S. Horvitz as Billy
Grey DeLisle as Mandy
Kristian Boland – Grum / Additional Voices
Troells Walther Toya – Billy & General Ar
Esben Pretzmann – Fred Fredburger
Caspar Phillipson – Billys Far / Additional Voices
Vibeke Dueholm – Irwin
Marie Schjeldal – Mindy
Karoline Munksnæs
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress.
She is the daughter of Tippi Hedren.
She has been in many motion pictures.
She is an Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner for her performance in the 1988 movie Working Girl.
Griffith began work at nine months old in a commercial.
In Night Moves she did racy nude scenes at age 17.
At age 14, Griffith began dating 22-year old actor Don Johnson.
He co-starred with her mother in The Harrad Experiment.
Griffith was an extra.
They had a six-month marriage in 1976.
Tatum O'Neal said in her 2004 autobiography that around that time, she (then 12) and Griffith (then 18) were in an opium-fueled orgy in a Paris hotel room.
In September 1981, Griffith married Steven Bauer.
He was her co-star in the TV movie She's in the Army Now.
They have a son, Alexander, born on August 22, 1985.
The couple divorced in 1987.
Griffith later said she had problems with cocaine and liquor after her divorce from Bauer. "
What I did was drink myself to sleep at night," she said. "
If I wasn't with someone, I was an unhappy girl."
She checked into rehab in 1988.
During this time, she got back together with Johnson, became sober and pregnant.
They remarried in June 1989.
Their daughter, Dakota Johnson, was born on October 4, 1989.
They separated in June 1994.
Griffith and Antonio Banderas began a relationship in May 1995 when they began filming Two Much.
The couple has been married since May 14, 1996.
Their daughter, Stella del Carmen Banderas Griffith, was born on September 24, 1996.
There are reports of trouble in the marriage due to Antonio's closeness to an Indian Actress Mallika Sherawat.
In June 2014, Griffith and Banderas stated that they are to divorce.
In 1988, Griffith sought treatment for addiction to painkillers and alcohol after the filming of Working Girl.
She went into rehab in 2000 for a painkiller addiction.
She returned to rehab in August 2009 for substance abuse problems.
She left three months later and underwent surgery for skin cancer in December 2009.
Named "Star of Tomorrow" by the Motion Picture Booker's Club (1984)
Taormina International Film Festival — Diamond Award (2000)
Cannes Film Festival — Lifetime Achievement Award (2001)
N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitudes also Niggaz With Attitude) was an American rap group from Compton, California, and its members were Eazy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre.
It was first managed by Jerry Heller.
The rap group started in 1986 and lasted until 1991.
The group originated gangsta rap and had lyrics unique to gangsta rap that were very explicit, violent, misogynist, sexist, and racist which made them controversial.
Their controversies included being banned from many American radio stations.
One of their most controversial songs was "Fuck tha Police", which expressed anger, violence and racism towards police officers.
Many people believed that N.W.A glamorized gang violence, street thugs and the violent lifestyle among many people in Compton.
Death of Eazy-E
Straight Outta Compton (1988)
Niggaz4Life (1991)
100 Miles and Runnin' (1990)
The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award.
It is named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.
It has been awarded since 1983.
Dick died in 1982.
The prize is given to the best original paperback published each year in the US.
It is given at the Norwescon science fiction convention every year.
The Philadelphia Science Fiction Society supports the award.
The Philip K. Dick Trust has supported the award since 2005.
Books that have won the award have Best Original SF Paperback printed on their covers.
Thomas Disch started this award with help from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown.
David G. Hartwell and Gordon Van Gelder manage the award now.
Some other people who have been in charge of the award include Algis Budrys and David Alexander Smith.
Winners and candidates of the Philip K. Dick Award
Winning authors are listed in bold.
Authors of books that were given special notice or citations are listed in italics.
The year in the table below tells the year the book was published.
The award was given the next year.
The official award homepage
List of the most honored Philip K. Dick Award nominees
List of all winning and nominated novels
Rincah, is a small island near Komodo island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
The island is famous for giant lizards called Komodo dragons.
Rincah also has many other animals such as wild pigs, buffalos, and birds.
The island may also be called Rinca and Rindja.
Rincah is less popular than Komodo Island, so it is an excellent place to see the Komodo Dragon in nature with fewer people around.
Day trips can be arranged from Labuanbajo on Flores by small boat at the park headquarters.
Keaton was born on January 5, 1946 in Los Angeles, California.
Her mother, Dorothy Deanne (née Keaton; 1921–2008), was a homemaker and amateur photographer; her father, John Newton Ignatius "Jack" Hall (1921–1990), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.
Her father, from Nebraska, came from an Irish-American Catholic background, and her mother, originally from Kansas, came from a Methodist family, and had English, German, and more distant Austrian, ancestry.
Keaton was raised a Free Methodist by her mother.
Her mother won the "Mrs. Los Angeles" pageant for homemakers; Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her first impulse to be an actress, and led to her wanting to work on stage.
She has also credited Katharine Hepburn, whom she admires for playing strong and independent women, as one of her inspirations.
Keaton had bulimia nervosa in the early 1970s.
She has never married.
She has two adopted children: a daughter Dexter Keaton (born 1995) and a son Duke Keaton (born 2000).
She starred in Annie Hall, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Marvin's Room, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II, The First Wives Club and Something's Gotta Give.
Manticores (from Greek martikhoras, meaning man-eater) were creatures in Greek mythology.
They had the body of a lion, a human head, and three rows of teeth similar to sharks.
Although it changes from story to story, they also often had the tail of a dragon or a scorpion.
Sometimes they could shoot poisonous spines from their tails.
When early Greeks noticed that someone had gone missing, some said this as proof that manticores were real.
Typhon (Greek Τυφῶν), also Typhoeus, Typhaon, and Typhos, was the final son of Gaia in Greek mythology.
He attempted to destroy Zeus after Zeus imprisoned the Titans.
Zeus won and sent Typhon to be trapped under Mount Etna.
Typhon was the father of the Nemean lion, Cerberus, and the Gorgons.
He was married to Echidna.
Meanwhile, all of the Greek gods (except for Hermes and Zeus) had fled to Egypt.
In Egypt, many of the gods made themselves turn into animals to hide fromTyphon.
They reproduced, and the Egyptian gods and goddesses were born.
Typhon was a giant that was so tall that his head touched the stars.
His torso was that of a man, but his legs were coils of vipers that would hiss and attack as he moved.
His main head had on it 100 snakeheads who would make different sounds of animals.
His eyes were glowing red and would terrify everyone who looked upon them, and he had what was called a savage jaw which would breathe fire.
His body had hundreds of different wings on it and his hands were made up of 100 snake coils just like his legs.
<a href="https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/gods/typhon/">Typhon: https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net</a> - Greek Gods & Goddesses, February 7, 2017
Varanidae is the family of monitor lizards.
The family is a group of carnivorous lizards.
It includes the largest living lizard, the Komodo dragon, and the crocodile monitor.
Varanidae contains the living genus Varanus and some extinct groups.
An Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, is a burst of electromagnetic radiation (light, magnetism, electricity), and is caused by a huge release of energy.
A "common" cause for an electromagnetic pulse is a nuclear explosion.
A scientist named Enrique Fermi predicted that electromagnetic pulses would result from a nuclear weapon being launched.
An EMP can damage electronic recording equipment and shut off digital clocks, regardless of their electronic shielding.
21st Century Complete Guide to Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack Threats, Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic ... High-Altitude Nuclear Weapon EMP Attacks (CD-ROM)
Threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) to U.S. military systems and civil infrastructure: Hearing before the Military Research and Development Subcommittee ... first session, hearing held July 16, 1997 (Unknown Binding)
Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation and Protective Techniques
Business Insider: Gauging The Threat Of An Electro-Magnetic Pulse Attack In The US
GlobalSecurity.org – Electromagnetic Pulse: From chaos to a manageable solution
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and Tempest Protection for Facilities – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
EMP data from Starfish nuclear test measured by Richard Wakefield of LANL, and review of evidence pertaining to the effects 1,300 km away in Hawaii, also review of Russian EMP tests of 1962
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Honey (2003 movie), starring Jessica Alba
Huntingdon College, founded in 1854, is a liberal arts college in Montgomery, Alabama, United States.
It is known for its business and science programs.
The college has recently made a football team and marching band.
Huntingdon College was first started on February 2, 1854, as "Tuskegee Female College".
A decision was made in the late 19th century to move the campus to a larger city.
The college, renamed the "Woman's College of Alabama" moved in 1910 to a 58 acre section of Montgomery.
Several new buildings were built for the "Gothic" style of the main college building, Flowers Memorial Hall.
Huntingdon is ranked a fourth school by U.S. News and World Report.
Huntingdon College is also ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the best liberal arts colleges in the Southeast.
Huntingdon College official site
Ballistics is a science about the motion of projectiles (flying objects), mainly about bullets which are fired from guns.
This science shows us the path and behavior of projectiles.
Gun ballistics may be divided into the following  four categories.
Internal ballistics is about the motion of projectile inside barrel ( tube part of gun).
This motion depends on the pressure of gas, which come into being by burning gunpowder.
Pressure depends on (is connected) amount of gunpowder in bullet, type of gunpowder, size of pieces of gunpowder, free space behind a bullet and outside temperature.
This motion also depends on size and weight of bullet.
The most important number from internal ballistics for performance is a muzzle velocity (Projectile speed from the front edge of barrel).
Transition ballistics is a science about behavior and changes in the nearest distance from the barrel.
It study effect of gases going from a barrel behind a bullet, which are faster than bullet.
These gases can negatively (badly) effect ballistic path.
External ballistics studies the trajectory (path) of a bullet outside the barrel.
This trajectory depends on three ballistic conditions.
It is a beginning speed, angle of fire and ballistic coefficient ( number, which characterize influence of air).
Trajectory of a projectile is also influenced by (depends on) resistance of air, rotation of bullet, density and pressure of air and size and orientation of wind.
For long-distanced missiles are also important changes in magnetic field of the Earth.
Terminal ballistics is about what happens when the bullet hits something.
Southern Gothic is a kind of gothic fiction, different from American literature, that usually takes place in American South.
It can be ironic and unique.
It is used in writing for subjects such as social issues and the culture of the American South.
Maserati is an Italian luxury car making company.
It began working with the company known as Ferrari, but recently changed to a group that includes Alfa Romeo.
The Maserati brothers were named Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, and Ernesto.
Alfieri initially raced with cars from a company called Diatto, but in 1926 when they stopped being produced, Alfieri and his brothers created a company called Maserati.
One of the first cars that they made (driven by Alfieri) won the 1926 Targa Florio.
Alfieri died in 1932, but the three other brothers continued making the cars.
Their trident logo was probably created by an artist named Mario.
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He was later an important commander in Italy and in North-West Europe.
He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord until after the Battle of Normandy, and was the principal commander for Operation Market Garden.
After the War he became Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces of Occupation in Germany and then Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887.
He was the fourth child of nine.
His parents were The Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, an Anglo-Irish Anglican priest, and Maud Montgomery (née Farrar).
Henry Montgomery was the second son of the noted British Indian Empire official, Sir Robert Montgomery, who died a month after Bernard's birth.
Bernard's mother Maud was the daughter of the well-known preacher Frederic William Farrar, and was eighteen years younger than her husband.
The loveless environment made Bernard something of a bully, as he himself later recalled "I was a dreadful little boy.
I don't suppose anybody would put up with my sort of behaviour these days."
The family returned home once for the Lambeth Conference in 1897, and Bernard and his brother Harold were educated for a term at The King's School, Canterbury.
In 1901, Bishop Montgomery became secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the family returned to London.
Montgomery went to St Paul's School and then the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, from which he was almost expelled for setting fire to a fellow cadet during a fight with pokers.
On graduation he joined the 1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment in September 1908 as a second lieutenant, first seeing service in India until 1913.
He was promoted to lieutenant in 1910.
The First World War began in August 1914 and Montgomery moved to France with his regiment that month.
Half his battalion was destroyed during the retreat from Mons.
At Méteren, on 13 October 1914, during an Allied counter-offensive, he was shot through the right lung by a sniper and was so badly injured that a grave was dug because he was expected to die.
A Platoon sergeant came to assist him but was killed.
He fell on Montgomery.
The German sniper fired at him until sunset.
The body of the sergeant protected Montgomery and took most of the enemy fire.
Montgomery was hit once more though, in the knee.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallant leadership.
The citation for this award, published in the London Gazette in December 1914 reads:
In early 1915, he was appointed to be brigade major training Kitchener's New Army and returned to the Western Front in early 1916 as an operations staff officer during the battles of the Somme, Arras, and Passchendaele.
During this time he came under IX Corps, part of General Sir Herbert Plumer's Second Army.
Because the infantry, artillery and engineers were trained together, rehearsed together, and worked together they were able to do what they were asked efficiently and without unnecessary casualties.
Montgomery served at the battles of the Lys and Chemin-des-Dames before finishing the war as General Staff Officer 1 and effectively chief of staff of the 47th (2nd London) Division, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel.
A photograph from October 1918 shows the then unknown Lt.-Col.
Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill (Minister of Munitions) at the victory parade at Lille.
Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.
The 3rd Division was sent to Belgium as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
Montgomery predicted a disaster similar to that in 1914, and so spent the Phoney War training his troops to retreat safely rather than offensive operations.
During this time, Montgomery faced serious trouble from his superiors for his attitude regarding the sexual health of his soldiers.
However, he was defended from dismissal by his superior Alan Brooke, commander of II Corps.
Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, returning to Britain intact with minimal casualties.
During Operation Dynamo — the evacuation of 330,000 BEF and French troops to Britain — Montgomery had assumed command of the II Corps after Brooke had taken acting command of the whole BEF.
On his return Montgomery annoyed the War Office by criticising the way the BEF was run and he was put in charge of a smaller group of soldiers.
He was however made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.
In July 1940, he was appointed acting lieutenant-general, placed in command of V Corps, responsible for the defence of Hampshire and Dorset, and started a long-running feud with the new commander-in-chief, Southern Command, Claude Auchinleck.
In April 1941, he became commander of XII Corps responsible for the defence of Kent.
During this period he instituted a regime of continuous training and insisted on high levels of physical fitness for both officers and other ranks.
He was ruthless in sacking officers he considered would be unfit for command in action.
In December 1941 Montgomery was given command of South-Eastern Command overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
He renamed his command the South-Eastern Army to promote offensive spirit.
During this time he further developed and rehearsed his ideas and trained his soldiers, culminating in Exercise Tiger in May 1942, a combined forces exercise involving 100,000 troops.
North Africa and Italy
Montgomery's early command
In 1942, a new field commander was needed in the Middle East.
Auchinleck was acting as both the commander-in-chief Middle East Command and commander Eighth Army.
He had fixed the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the  Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.
Montgomery was very popular with the men of the Eighth Army, and when he took command Army's fighting spirit and abilities got better.
Taking command on 13 August 1942, he immediately became a whirlwind of activity.
He ordered the creation of the X Corps, which contained all armoured divisions to fight alongside his XXX Corps which was all infantry divisions.
This was in no way similar to a German Panzer Corps.
One of Rommel's Panzer Corps combined infantry, armour and artillery units under one division commander.
The only common commander for Montgomery's all infantry and all armour corps was the Eighth Army Commander himself.
Correlli Barnett said that Montgomery's solution "...was in every way opposite to Auchinleck's and in every way wrong, for it carried the existing dangerous separatism still further."
Montgomery spent two months making the  long front line at El Alamein stronger.
He asked Alexander to send him two new British divisions (51st Highland and 44th) that were then arriving in Egypt and were scheduled to be deployed in defence of the Nile Delta.
He moved his field HQ to Burg al Arab, close to the Air Force command post in order better to coordinate combined operations.
Montgomery wanted the Army, Navy and Air Force to fight together from the same detailed plan.
He ordered immediate reinforcement of the vital heights of Alam Halfa, just behind his own lines, expecting the German commander, Erwin Rommel, to attack with there, something that Rommel soon did.
Montgomery ordered all plans for retreat be destroyed. "
I have cancelled the plan for withdrawal", he told his officers at the first meeting he held with them in the desert. "
If we are attacked, then there will be no retreat.
If we cannot stay here alive, then we will stay here dead."
Montgomery made a great effort to appear before troops as often as possible, frequently visiting various units and making himself known to the men, often arranging for cigarettes to be distributed.
Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret (with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge) for which he became notable.
The black beret had been given to him by a soldier when he climbing into a tank to get a closer look at the front lines.
Both Brooke and Alexander were astonished by the change in atmosphere when they visited on 19 August, less than a week after Montgomery had taken command.
First battles with Rommel
Rommel attempted to turn the left side of the Eighth Army at the Battle of Alam Halfa from 31 August 1942.
The German/Italian armoured Corps infantry attack was stopped in very heavy fighting.
Rommel's forces had to withdraw quickly so that they could escape though the British minefields be cut off.
Montgomery was criticised for not counter-attacking the retreating forces immediately, but he felt strongly that his build-up of British forces was not yet ready.
A hasty counter-attack risked ruining his strategy for an offensive on his own terms in late October, planning for which had begun soon after he took command.
He was confirmed in the permanent rank of lieutenant-general in mid October.
The conquest of Libya was essential for airfields to support Malta and to threaten the rear of Axis forces opposing Operation Torch.
Montgomery prepared meticulously for the new offensive after convincing Churchill that the time was not being wasted. (
Churchill sent a telegram to Alexander on 23 September 1942 which began, "We are in your hands and of course a victorious battle makes amends for much delay.)
He was determined not to fight until he thought there had been enough preparation for a victory, and put into action his beliefs with the gathering of resources, detailed planning, the training of troops — especially in clearing minefields and fighting at night — and in the use of 252 of the latest American-built Sherman tanks, 90 M7 Priest self-propelled howitzers, and making a personal visit to every unit involved in the offensive.
By the time the offensive was ready in late October, Eighth Army had 231,000 men on its ration strength including British, Australian, South African, Indian, New Zealand, Greek and Free French units.
The Second Battle of El Alamein began on 23 October 1942, and ended twelve days later with the first large-scale, decisive Allied land victory of the war.
Montgomery correctly predicted both the length of the battle and the number of casualties (13,500).
However, soon after British armoured units and infantry broke through the German and Italian lines and were pursuing the enemy forces at speed along the coast road, a violent rainstorm burst over the region, bogging down the tanks and support trucks in the desert mud.
Montgomery,  standing before his officers at headquarters and close to tears, announced that he was forced to call off the pursuit.
Corelli Barnett has pointed out that the rain also fell on the Germans, and that the weather is therefore an inadequate explanation for the failure to exploit the breakthrough, but nevertheless the Battle of El Alamein had been a great success.
Over 30,000 prisoners were taken including the German second in command,  General von Thoma, as well as eight other general officers.
Rommel, having been in a hospital in Germany at the start of the battle, was forced to return on 25 October 1942 after General Stumme - his replacement as German commander - died of a heart attack in the early hours of the battle.
Montgomery was knighted and promoted to full general.
The Eighth Army's later advance as the Germans retreated hundreds of miles towards their bases in Tunisia used the logistical as well as the firepower advantages of the British Army while avoiding unnecessary risks.
It also gave the Allies an indication that the tide of war had genuinely turned in North Africa .
Montgomery kept the initiative, applying superior strength when it suited him, forcing Rommel out of each successive defensive position.
On 6 March 1943, Rommel's attack on the over-extended Eighth Army at Medenine (Operation Capri) with the largest concentration of German armour in North Africa was successfully repulsed.
At the Mareth Line, 20 March to 27 March, when Montgomery encountered stronger opposition than he had expected, he switched to trying to move around the side of the Germans, backed by low-flying RAF fighter-bomber support.
This campaign demonstrated the battle-winning ingredients of morale (sickness and absenteeism were virtually eliminated in the Eighth Army), co-operation of all arms including the air forces, first-class logistical back-up and clear-cut orders.
For his role in North Africa he was awarded the Legion of Merit by the United States government in the rank of Chief Commander.
The next major Allied attack was the Allied invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky).
Montgomery considered the initial plans for the Allied invasion, which had been agreed in principle by Eisenhower and Alexander, to be unworkable because of the way troops and effort were separated.
He managed to have the plans changed to concentrate the Allied forces, having Patton's Seventh US Army land in the Gulf of Gela (on the left side of Eighth Army, which landed around Syracuse in the south-east of Sicily) rather than near Palermo in the west and north of Sicily.
Inter-Allied tensions grew as the American commanders Patton and Bradley (then commanding II US Corps under Patton), got annoyed because they saw Montgomery as boastful.
They resented him, while accepting his skills as a general.
During the autumn of 1943, Montgomery continued to command the Eighth Army during the landings on the mainland of Italy itself.
In conjunction with the Anglo-American landings at Salerno (near Naples) by Mark Clark's Fifth Army and seaborne landings by British paratroops in the heel of Italy (including the key port of Taranto, where they disembarked without resistance directly into the port), Montgomery led the Eighth Army up the toe of Italy.
Some criticism was made of the slowness of Montgomery's advance.