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The Wehrmacht was engaged in a front-wide retreat from the Yugoslav Partisans, along with the local collaborationist forces (the Ustaše, the Domobranci, the Chetniks, and units of Mussolini's puppet Italian Social Republic).
The fourth period took place after the Memorandum of Understanding in London.
It gave provisional civil administration of Zone A (with Trieste), to Italy, and Zone B to Yugoslavia: in 1975 the Treaty of Osimo finally divided the former Free Territory of Trieste.
Estimates of the exodus
Vladimir Žerjavić (Croat), 191,421 Italian exiles from Croatian territory.
Nevenka Troha (Slovene), 40,000 Italian and 3,000 Slovene exiles from Slovenian territory.
Raoul Pupo (Italian), about 250,000 Italian exiles
Flaminio Rocchi (Italian), about 350,000 Italian exiles
Famous exiles
In the list are persons who worked in other places before the war and are also considered exiles due to their properties being confiscated by the communist dictatorship under Josip Broz.
Famous postwar exiles from territories include:
Mario Andretti from Motovun (then Montona d'Istria), race driver
Laura Antonelli, actress
Lidia Bastianich from Pula (then Pola), chef
Nino Benvenuti from Izola (then Isola d'Istria), boxer: three times professional world's champion and olympic gold medalist
Enzo Bettiza from Split, novelist, journalist and politician
Gianni Cucelli, tennis player
Sergio Endrigo from Pula (then Pola), singer
Guido Miglia from Pula (then Pola), journalist and writer
Ottavio Missoni from Zadar (then Zara), stylist and former Sindaco (Mayor) del Comune di Zara in Esilio, an association of exiles Dalmatian Italians
Abdon Pamich, race walker: world's champion and olympic gold medalist
Orlando Sirola, tennis player
Agostino Straulino, sailor: four times world's champion and olympic gold medalist
Fulvio Tomizza from Materada (a small village near Porec, then Parenzo), poet and writer
Leo Valiani, politician and journalist
Alida Valli, actress
Valentino Zeichen from Rijeka (then Fiume), poet and writer
Lidia Bastianich, chef
Mario Gasperini, painter
Luigi Donorà, composer
Property reparation
On February 18, 1983 Yugoslavia and Italy signed a treaty in Rome.
Yugoslavia agreed to pay US$110 million for the compensation of the exiles' property which was confiscated after the war in the Zone B of Free Territory of Trieste.
Up to its breakup in 1991, Yugoslavia had paid US$18 million.
Italy did not want to reveal the bank account number so in 1994 Slovenia opened a fiduciary account at Dresdner Bank in Luxembourg, informed Italy about it and started paying its US$55,976,930 share.
The last payment was due in January 2002.
Until today, the solution of the matter between Croatia and Italy has been delayed.
None of the refugees from the Free Territory of Trieste saw  a single penny so far.
Historical debate
It has been established that foibe massacres were been used by Slav communists for ethnic-political cleansing.
In fact, foibe massacres and exodus were described as a democide and an ethnic-political cleansing by Italian president Giorgio Napolitano.
Fascist oppression in occupied Slovenia and Croatia
Foibe massacres
Free Territory of Trieste
The Effects of the Dissolution of Yugoslavia on Minority Rights: the Italian Minority in Post-Yugoslav Slovenia and Croatia by Matjaž Klemenčič
Site of an association of Italian exiles from Istria and Dalmatia.
Italians mark war massacre
Massacres and Atrocities of World War II
A Brief History of Istria by Darko Darovec
Perlasco Foundation on Istrian-dalmatian exodus (in italian)
Italian documentary
Kochi is a city in the state of Kerala, in India.
It used to be called Cochin.
It is also called the "Queen of the Arabian Sea".
The city has the second-highest population after the capital city of Kerala, Trivandrum.
Kochi is the financial and commercial hub of the state.
Kochi has a very old synagogue.
It is usually called by the name Ernakulam, which is the mainland part of the city.
Most regions in Kochi are at sea level.
It has a coastline of almost .
Kochi is the seat of the High Court of Kerala.
Kochi was an important spice trading centre on the west coast of India from the 14th century onward, and maintained a trade network with Arab merchants from the pre-Islamic era.
Occupied by the Portuguese in 1503, Kochi was the first of the European colonies in colonial India.
It remained the main seat of Portuguese India until 1530, when Goa was chosen instead.
The city was later occupied by the Dutch and the British, with the Kingdom of Cochin becoming a princely state.
Kochi ranks first in the total number of international and domestic tourist arrivals in Kerala.
The city was ranked the sixth best tourist destination in India according to a survey conducted by the Nielsen Company on behalf of the Outlook Traveller magazine.
Kochi was one of the 28 Indian cities among the emerging 440 global cities that will contribute 50% of the world GDP by the year 2025, in a 2011 study done by the McKinsey Global Institute.
In July 2018, Kochi was ranked the topmost emerging future megacity in India by global professional services firm JLL.
Historical Influence
The historical influence from the Italian peninsula in Dalmatia started with the Roman conquest of Illyrian Dalmatia.
The historian Theodore Mommsen stated in his book History of Rome that all Dalmatia was fully Romanised and Latin speaking by the fourth century.
The actual Dalmatians may in part trace their origins back to the Romanised Illyrians during the "Barbarian Invasions" of the fifth and sixth centuries when Avars with some Slavs invaded Illyria.
This invasion opened the way to the settlement of different Slavic tribes (mainly the "Croats").
During those years the original Latin population took refuge in the coastal cities and in the islands, whilst other migrated to the mountains (they were later called "Morlachs").
So, in the early Middle Ages, the coastal area of Dalmatia retained its original Latinized culture, mainly on the islands and cities such as Zara, Spalato, Ragusa and Cattaro.
These cities during the Middle Ages were called "Citta' marittime di Dalmazia" (Dalmatian maritime neolatin cities) and maintained deep cultural and commercial links with the Italian mainland, thanks to intense commerce through the Adriatic sea.
The Republic of Venice controlled most of Dalmatia from 1420 to 1797.
During that period, part of its Slavic population was italianised.
The Venetian possessions were called "Venetian Dalmatia" and enjoyed a flourishing period of economic bonanza with huge development of the arts and culture.
Dalmatia was greatly influenced by the Italian Renaissance and many buildings, churches and cathedrals were done in those years, from Zara and Spalato to Sebenik and Ragusa.
After the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797 to the Napoleon Armies, the Dalmatia was incorporated briefly (1805-1809) in the "Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy".
In those years the scholastic system was expanded to all the population (following the ideals of the French Revolution) and the Italian language was instituted as the official language in the schools of Dalmatia.
When Austria occupied Dalmatia there was a revival of the Slav people inside Dalmatia.
The Italian (venetian speaking) population, that was (according to the Italian linguist Bartoli) nearly one third of the Dalmatians in the second half of the XVIII century, according to the Austrian census decreased from 22% in 1816 to 12.5% in 1853 and a mere 2.9% in 1910.
After WWI, by the Treaty of London, Italy obtained Zara and some northern Dalmatian islands (Cherso and Lussino).
During WWII the Kingdom of Italy annexed, to the newly created Governatorato di Dalmazia, most of Dalmatia.
In 1942 there were 4020 Italians in these newly annexed areas: 2220 in Spalato (Split), 300 in Sebenico (Sibenik), 500 Cattaro (Kotor) and 1000 Veglia (Krk).
Furthermore there were in the Governatorato 10000 Italians who took the Yugoslav citizenship after WWI, in order to remain there and be accepted without problems by the new Yugoslavian regime after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After WWII Italy lost all the territories in Dalmatia, and more than 22000 Dalmatian Italians exiled mainly in Italy.
There are still some Dalmatian Italians in Dalmatia: 300 in Croatia and 500 in Montenegro.
In Zara the small Dalmatian Italian community only in September 2012 has been allowed to have a kindergarten for Italian speaking children
Cultural Influence
The cultural influence from the Italian peninsula is extremely important in Dalmatia since the Roman times.
It has increased to influence totally the dalmatian culture during the times of the Republic of Venice and the Italian Renaissance.
Indeed, the "British Encyclopedia" states that: "the monuments left in Dalmatia by the Romans are numerous and precious.
They are chiefly confined to the cities; for the civilization of the country was always urban, just as its history is a record of isolated city-states rather than of a united nation.
Beyond the walls of its larger towns, little was spared by the barbarian Goths, Avars and Slavs; and the battered fragments of Roman work which mark the sites of Salona, near Spalato, and of many other ancient cities, are of slight antiquarian interest and slighter artistic value.
Among the monuments of the Roman period, by far the most noteworthy in Dalmatia, and, indeed, in the whole Balkan Peninsula, is the Palace of Diocletian at Spalato.
Dalmatian architecture was influenced by Constantinople in its general character from the 6th century until the close of the tenth.
The oldest memorials of this period are the vestiges of three basilicas, excavated in Salona, and dating from the first half of the 7th century at latest.
Then from Italy came the Romanesque.
The belfry of S. Maria, at Zara, erected in 1105, is first in a long list of Romanesque buildings.
At Arbe there is a beautiful Romanesque campanile which also belongs to the 12th century; but the finest example in this style is the cathedral of Trail.
The 14th century Dominican and Franciscan convents in Ragusa are also noteworthy.
Romanesque lingered on in Dalmatia until it was displaced by Venetian Gothic in the early years of the 15th century.
The influence of Venice was then at its height.
Even in the relatively hostile republic of Ragusa the Romanesque of the custom-house and Rectors' palace is combined with Venetian Gothic, while the graceful balconies and ogee windows of the Prijeki closely follow their Venetian models.
In 1441 Giorgio Orsini of Zara, summoned from Venice to design the cathedral of Sebenico, brought with him the influence of the Italian Renaissance.
The new forms which he introduced were eagerly imitated and developed by other architects, until the period of decadence - which virtually concludes the history of Dalmatian art - set in during the latter half of the 17th century.
Special mention must be made of the carved woodwork, embroideries and plate preserved in many churches.
The silver statuette and the reliquary of St Biagio at Ragusa, and the silver ark of St Simeon at Zara, are fine specimens of Italian jewellers' work, ranging in date from the 11th or 12th to the 17th century".
In the XIX century the cultural influence from Italy originated the creation in Zara of the first dalmatian newspaper, edited in Italian and Croat: Il Regio Dalmata - Kraglski Dalmatin.
It was founded and published by the Italian Bartolomeo Benincasa in 1806.
The cultural influence from Italy is clearly evident in the urbanization plans of the main Dalmatian cities in the XIX/XX centuries.
One of the best examples is the one of Split/Spalato.
In 1880 Antonio Bajamonti (the last Dalmatian Italian Major of Spalato under Austrian rule) developed an urbanization project of this city centered on the "Riva", a seaside walkway full of palms based on the Italian Riviera models.
Even today the Riva (with cafe bars) is used by the locals to stroll in a typical Italian way from the "Palace of Diocletian" toward an old square called locally "Pjaca" (or square in venetian).
Perasto: an enduring example
Perasto was at its peak in the 18th century under the Republic of Venice, when it had as many as four active shipyards, a fleet of around one hundred ships, and 1,643 residents.
At that time the most beautiful buildings arose in this fortified town.
Many ornate baroque palaces and magnificent dwelling-houses decorated the town of Perast (Perasto), full of typical venetian architecture.
Perasto had the privilege to keep war-flag of the Venetian Navy in the peace time (it was called "La fedelissma Gonfaloniera") .
At the fall of the "Serenissima" (1797) Perasto was the last city of the Repubblic to lower the Venetian flag.
On 12 May 1797, the Republic of Venice ended, but a few places in the Albania veneta for several months still continued to remain loyal to the Venetian Repubblic: Perasto was the last place of the Republic to surrender.
On 22 August 1797 the Count Giuseppe Viscovich, Captain of Perasto lowered the Venetian war-flag of the Lion of Saint Mark pronouncing the farewell words in front of the crying people of the city and buried the "Gonfalon of Venice" under the altar of the main church of Perasto.
The population has since decreased to 430 in 1910 and around 360 today.
According to the "Comunita' nazionale italiana del Montenegro", in Perast actually there are 140 persons who still speak at home the original venetian dialect of Perasto (called "veneto da mar"), and call themselves in the census "Montenegrins".
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The article on Dalmatia from the British Encyclopedia of 1911
Old postcards of Dalmatia
Plant and frugivore relationship
The fruit is part of a plant's sexual reproduction cycle.
Plants spend a lot of energy and nutrients in creating fruit.
Fruit is produced to attract animals into eating the fruit.
The animal digests the pulp but not the seeds, ensuring the plant's genes are spread wherever the animal goes.
Seeds can also be germinated by falling near the mother plant.
Some seeds must pass through the digestive system (the stomach and intestines) before they can germinate.
Examples of frugivores
Many birds eat both fruits and insects which makes them omnivores.
Mammals may eat both fruits and protein, or eat mostly fruit or nectar, such as many bats.
One primate group is essentially herbivore/frugivore, the Owl Monkeys.
They live in a non-seasonal area of the Amazon that supports a constant supply of fruiting trees.
Elsewhere, an exclusively frugivore diet is impossible and is supplemented by insects or rougher plant matter.
Some people say that humans are frugivores; this is unlikely given the evolution of man in the dry tropical region of the Rift Valley.
However, the climate in the Rift valley at the time of our evolution was likely a tropical rainforest.
That said, almost all primates and even carnivores will travel great distances to feast when a fruit tree has dropped its ripened fruit.
Many species will remember the exact fruiting date and location of a fruiting tree which highlights fruits great nutritional benefit.
Some people promote a frugivore diet for humans.
Levey, D. J., W. R. Silva, and M. Galetti (editors) 2002.
Seed dispersal and frugivory : ecology, evolution, and conservation New York : CABI Pub.
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The Italian language is the third most spoken language (after Croatian and Serbian) in the Republic of Croatia today.
It is an officially recognized minority language in Istria County (where it is spoken by 7.69% of the population).
Speaker Population
The 2001 census in Croatia reported 19,636 ethnic Italians in the country (some .44% of the total population).
Ethnologue reported 70,000 speakers in 1998: 40,000 ethnic Italians and 30,000 ethnic Croats and Istrian people.
Native Italian speakers are largely concentrated along the Adriatic coast.
In addition, roughly 120,000 Italian tourists visit Croatia each year, so many in the service and tourist industries have some knowledge of the language.
As the 3/4 of the Italian community is concentrated in Istria, according to Ethnologue's estimates ( 70.000 ),  at least 20% of the population of Istria is Italian mother tongue, although many simply declare themselves as  Istrian.
Historically, the language had a much larger population than it does now.
Italians have lived on the Adriatic coast for hundreds of years, and Istria was part of the Kingdom of Italy from 1919 until 1947.
However the Istrian exodus after the Second World War and Yugoslavian ethnic cleansing in the form of the Foibe massacres forced the greater part of the Istrian Italians to flee to Italy.
Italian in Use
Government services are provided in Italian and Croatian in Istria County, including the official government website (which is also available in English).
There are four Italian-language schools in Istria: primary schools in Buje (Buie) and Novigrad (Cittanova) and secondary schools in Pula (Pola) and Rovinj (Rovigno).
Ethnologue Report for Italian
Region of Istria Official Website
Republic of Croatia Central Bureau of Statistics
Objectivism is a philosophy that was started by Ayn Rand.
It has four main ideas:
Everything that exists has an identity.
This identity does not depend on how people think about it or talk about it.
This is also true for things like feelings or ideas.
It says that a thing is the thing which it is, or "A is A." What people learn about the things that exist comes both from the identity of the things themselves and from the way that people observe (see) and think about what they have observed.
Reason is how a person knows that what he thinks or believes is true.
A person cannot make something true just by wanting it to be true or by mysticism.
Only rational, logical thinking can produce the best outcome.
This means recognizing that a thing is the thing it is, and to not confuse it with things which it is not.
It is good to be happy, and it is good for a person to try to be happy.
People should always try to improve their lives and be happy in the long term, so that they are happy now and in the future.
People should not hurt others to try to be happy, but they also should not hurt themselves to try to make other people happy.
People should also not make themselves less happy to help something like God.
Ayn Rand called this "rational self-interest".
If governments or criminals take things away from people, or try to make people do things they do not want to do, it does damage to everybody.
Ayn Rand thought that governments should only be able to protect people from violence, theft, fraud, and other actions that go against people's rights.
This includes laissez-faire capitalism and is sometimes called libertarianism.
She first told people these ideas in her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
She talked about them more in The Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist, The Ayn Rand Letter, Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology and The Virtue of Selfishness.
Dalmatia is a region of the Balkan Peninsula along the Adriatic Sea.
It mostly belongs to Croatia.
It goes from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor (in Montenegro) in the southeast.
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Vienna, 7 November 1903 – Vienna, 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, naturalist, ornithologist and Nobel Prize winner.
He is one of the founders of studies on animal behaviour (ethology).
Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in Greylag geese and jackdaws.
In his autobiographical essay, published in 1973 in Les Prix Nobel (people who win the Nobel Prize are asked to write essays about their lives), Lorenz said that his parents were the main reason he was so successful.
He also said that a book by Selma Lagerlof called The Wonderful Adventures of Nils that he read as a child was the reason he became interested in wild geese.
Lorenz began his studies in 1922 at Columbia University, but he returned to Vienna in 1923 to continue his studies at the University of Vienna until 1928.
At this university he became an assistant professor from 1928 to 1935.
In 1936, Lorenz met his great friend and colleague Niko Tinbergen.
Together they studied geese – wild, domestic, and hybrid.
In 1940 Lorenz became a professor of psychology at the University of Königsberg.
He was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1941.
He tried to become a motorcycle mechanic, but instead he was assigned as a medic.
He was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union from 1942 to 1948.
During this time, he continued to work as a medical doctor and "got quite friendly with some Russians, mostly doctors".
When he was sent back home after the war, he was allowed to keep both the manuscript of the book he had been writing and his pet starling.
He arrived back in Altenberg "with manuscript and bird intact."
The manuscript became his book Behind the Mirror.
Lorenz shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for discoveries in individual and social behavior patterns" with two other important early ethologists, Niko Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch.
In 1969, he became the first person to receive the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
Lorenz retired from the Max Planck Institute in 1973 but continued to research and publish from his family home, in Austria.
Konrad Lorenz died on 27 February 1989, in Altenberg.
Lorenz joined the Nazi Party in 1938 and accepted a university position under Nazi Germany.
In his application for membership to the Nazi-party NSDAP he wrote in 1938: "I'm able to say that my whole scientific work is devoted to the ideas of the National Socialists."
Lorenz' ideas
Together with Niko Tinbergen, Lorenz formed the idea of an innate releasing mechanism to explain instinctive behaviors (fixed action patterns).
Building on the ideas of William McDougall, Lorenz developed this into a "psychohydraulic" explanation of the motives (reasons) of behavior.
Another contribution is his work on imprinting.
His influence on a younger generation of ethologists, as well as his books, were important in bringing ethology to the attention of the general public.
Lorenz' vision of the challenges facing humanity
Lorenz predicted that market economics could eventually destroy Earth's ecosystem.
In his 1973 book, Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins, Lorenz considered the following paradox:
"All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should [help] to [ease] human suffering... tends instead to [make] humanity's destruction [more likely than it was before]."
"To gain a desired prey, a dog or wolf will do things [that they would normally not do, such as] run through thorn bushes, jump into cold water and expose themselves to risks which would normally frighten them.
All these inhibitory mechanisms... act as a counterweight to the effects of learning mechanisms... The organism cannot allow itself to pay a price which is not worth  paying".
"A closer examination shows that these beings... not only do not damage each other, but often constitute a community of interests.
It is obvious that the predator is strongly interested in the survival of that species, animal or vegetable, which constitutes its prey. ...
It is not uncommon that the prey species derives specific benefits from its interaction with the predator species...".
pages 31–33
Lorenz states that humanity is the only species that is not controlled by these mechanisms.
This is because humans are the only species that can change its own environment: "[The pace of human ecology] is determined by the progress of man's technology".
Not only that, but human ecology (economy) is governed by mechanisms of positive feedback, defined as a mechanism which tends to encourage behavior rather than to discourage it.
Positive feedback always involves the danger of an 'avalanche' effect... One particular kind of positive feedback occurs when individuals of the same species enter into competition among themselves... For many animal species, environmental factors keep... intraspecies selection from [leading to] disaster... But there is no force which exercises this type of healthy regulatory effect on humanity's cultural development; unfortunately for itself, humanity has learned to overcome all those environmental forces which are external to itself".
Lorenz does not see human independence from natural ecological processes as necessarily bad.
Indeed, he states that  "a completely new [ecology] which corresponds in every way to [humanity's] desires... could, theoretically, prove as durable as that which would have existed without his intervention" p36.
However, the principle of competition, typical of Western societies, destroys any chance of this:
"The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only forgotten what is useful to humanity as a whole, but even that which is good and advantageous to the individual. [...]
One asks, which is more damaging to modern humanity: the thirst for money or consuming haste... in either case, fear plays a very important role: the fear of being overtaken by one's competitors, the fear of becoming poor, the fear of making wrong decisions or the fear of not being up to snuff...".
pages 45-47
Philosophical ideas
In his 1973 book Behind the Mirror: a search for a natural history of human knowledge, Lorenz considers an old philosophical question: Do our senses actually tell us about the world as it is?
Or do they only give us an illusion?
Lorenz' answer comes from evolutionary biology.
Only things that help a species to survive and reproduce are kept.
Anything that does not benefit a species is quickly removed through the process of natural selection.
Lorenz argued that if our senses gave us wrong information about our environment, humanity would soon be extinct.
Therefore we can be sure that our senses give us correct information, for otherwise we would not be here to be deceived.
Books and essays
Lorenz's best-known books are King Solomon's Ring and On aggression, both written for a popular audience.
His scientific work appeared mainly in journal articles, written in German; they became widely known to English-speaking scientists through the descriptions of it in Tinbergen's 1951 book The study of instinct, though many of his papers were later published in English translation in the two volumes titled Studies in animal and human behaviour.
King Solomon's Ring (1949)
Man meets Dog (1950)
Evolution and modification of behaviour (1965)
On aggression (1966)
Studies in animal and human behaviour, Volume I (1970)
Studies in animal and human behaviour, Volume II (1971)
Behind the mirror (1973)
Civilized Man's eight deadly sins (1974)
The year of the Greylag Goose (1979)
The foundations of Ethology (1982)
The natural science of the human species: an introduction to comparative behavioural research – the Russian manuscript (1944-1948). (
Short Autobiography of Lorenz on the Nobel Foundation website
Review of Biologists Under Hitler
Ethologists
Virtualization (or Virtualisation) is a word used in computing.
Virtualization means that the users (programs, or real people) only see an abstraction of a computer resource.
Virtualization can be done in software, or with hardware.
RAID.
RAID is used to virtualize computer storage.
A RAID system appears as one "disk".
The fact that it is made of several disks that work together is hidden.
Virtual memory makes it possible to use more memory than is physically in the computer.
The computer figures out a way to write contents of certain memory blocks to disk.
Storage virtualization takes the ideas developed by RAID further.
This is what Storage area networks commonly use.
All the storage appears as a single big disk.
Certain administrators can specify that this large disk is made of "data pools" (which are also virtual).
The disk pools are made of single physical disks (or RAID arrays).
Some computers (mostly mainframes) allow to run several operating systems at the same time.
Each operating system believes it is the only one running.
Data virtualization is used by businesses to put together data from a few sources in one place.
This helps applications, reporting tools and end users to access data with no need in details about the source structure, location and original data.
Italian presence in Dalmatia
After the 1840s their ethnic group suffered from a constant trend of decreasing presence and now numbers only around 1,000 people.
This group, though small in numbers, exerted an unproportionally significant and noteworthy influence on the region in the last centuries.
Indeed the Dalmatian Italians were a fundamental presence in Dalmatia, when the process of political unification of the Italians, Croats and Serbs started at the beginning of the 19th century.
The 1816 Austro-Hungarian census registered 66,000 Italian speaking people between the 301,000 inhabitants of Dalmatia, or 22% of the total dalmatian population.
But in 2010 they were reduced to only a few hundreds.
They are currently represented in Croatia and Montenegro by the Italian National Community () (CNI).
The Italo-Croatian minorities treaty recognizes the Italian Union (Unione Italiana) as the political party officially representing the CNI in Croatia.
The number of Dalmatian Italians in that country has fallen to 300, and the Italian Union concentrates on the Istrian region, including the city of Fiume (actual Rijeka), which is home to the vast majority of the Croatian Italian national minority numbering around 30,000 citizens.
Some Dalmatian Italians, mostly living in Zara (actual Zadar), entered in the Italian government after WWI and promoted the conquest of coastal Dalmatia by Italian troops in 1941.
Most of coastal Dalmatia was united to the Kingdom of Italy from April 1941 to September 1943, when were created the Provincia di Spalato and the Provincia di Cattaro while was enlargerd the Provincia di Zara.
Organizations and periodicals
Associazione nazionale Venezia Giulia e Dalmazia
Comunità di Lussinpiccolo
Comunità chersina nel mondo
Libero Comune di Zara in esilio (Free Commune of Zadar in exile)
Società Dalmata di Storia Patria
The most popular periodical for Dalmatian Italians is Il Dalmata, published in Trieste by Renzo de' Vidovich.
Incidents in Spalato
The chukar (Alectoris chukar) is a Eurasian upland gamebird in the pheasant family Phasianidae of the order Galliformes, gallinaceous birds.
Other common names of this bird include 'Chukker' (sometimes misspelled as 'Chuker'), 'Chukar Partridge', 'Red-legged Partridge', 'Rock Partridge', 'Indian Hill Partridge', 'Chukka', 'Chukkar', 'Chukor', 'Chukore', 'Chikone', 'Kabk', 'Kau-Kau', and 'Keklik'.
The Chukar is the National bird of Pakistan respectively..
This partridge has its native range in Asia from Pakistan and Kashmir, and Afghanistan in the east to southeastern Europe in the west, and is closely related and similar to its western equivalent, the Red-legged Partridge, Alectoris rufa.
It has been introduced widely, and became established in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Hawaii.
In Great Britain, hybrids between this species and the also introduced Red-legged Partridge are common.
The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 movie written and directed by the Wachowski sisters.
It is a sequel to The Matrix (1999).
It is a prequel to The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections.
In this movie, the humans and the machines are at war.
The machines have taken over everywhere except for the city of Zion, which is buried four kilometers below the surface.
In this world, the machines have created the Matrix, which looks like the real world but it is a trick.
A few hundred humans have been "unplugged" and see the real reality, which is dark and barren.
The humans find out that the machines are digging to invade that area and they want to stop it.
One group of humans, led by Morpheus, believe in something called the prophecy.
They believe that The One (a human named Neo) will save the humans.
Another group, led by Commander Jason Lock, believes that the prophecy does not make sense and try to defend Zion with ships and humans.
Neo is called to see the Oracle.
After he meets the Oracle, he gets into a fight with Smith.
Smith is an old friend of his.
He used to be an Agent, which meant that he was very powerful.
However Neo defeated him at the end of the first movie.
Smith says that he has new powers.
He is able to touch someone and that someone becomes part of him.
He and hundreds of these clones try to defeat Neo, but they are not very powerful and Neo beats them.
Smith later touches someone named Bane.
Now Smith controls an unplugged human, making him very dangerous.
As Bane, Smith tries to kill Neo, but another human named the Kid accidentally stops that from happening when he comes to say goodbye to Neo.
Later, the humans line all of their ships together.
They hope to trigger their EMPs all at once to stop the machines (the EMP kills all electronics within their radius).
Smith/Bane, on one of these ships, triggers the EMP before they are supposed to and ruins the attack.
Neo and his crew try to fulfill the prophecy.
They pick up a man named the Keymaker.
They must get into a special room within a certain time limit.
The power must be cut.
The machines, which just beat back the surprise attack, attack one of the ships and the power comes back on.
Trinity, Neo's girlfriend, gets into the system and turns off the power again.
Neo meets a man named the Architect.
He tells Neo that the prophecy is not true and that the machines will destroy Zion.
It is The One's job to let it be destroyed and to pick new people to form a new Zion.
The One must also touch the source.
Neo learns that Trinity is in trouble and will die.
Instead of doing what the Architect tells him, he saves Trinity.
Morpheus is not happy that the war is not over yet.
He says that the war should have been over when The One touched the source.
Neo tells Morpheus what the Architect said.
The machines attack the ship that Morpheus, Trinity, and Neo are on.
Neo uses his powers to disable all the attacking machines, but falls unconscious.
Another ship picks them up.
The movie ends in the ship hospital room, where Bane and Neo are lying.
Jada Pinkett Smith as Niobe
The response to this movie was big.
It made $91 million in its first weekend at the box office, beating out the $50 million record set by Hannibal (2001) for an R-rated movie.
Its final total of $281 million in the United States was the highest ever for an R-rated movie until The Passion of the Christ (2004) beat it with $370 million.
Get Smart was a television series that was shown on NBC from September 18, 1965 to April 12, 1969.
It was then shown on CBS from September 26, 1969, to September 11, 1970.
It made fun of the secret agent genre.
It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as the chief.
Max Smart worked for a secret organization called CONTROL.
Their enemy was KOAS.
In 1980, a movie The Nude Bomb was released in theaters.
In 1989, a television movie was shown called, Get Smart, Again!.
Because of the good success of the movie, FOX created a new TV series called Get Smart, which featured Don Adams as Max Smart, now chief of CONTROL.
A movie based on the series was released on June 20, 2008.
It starred Steve Carell as Max Smart, Anne Hathaway as Agent 99 and Alan Arkin as the chief.
Roger Ebert gave it good reviews.
The Get Smart Wiki
1965 television series debuts
1970 television series endings
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, called the AFL-CIO, is a group of labor unions in the United States and Canada.
There are 54 national different unions in the group, and they speak for over 10 million workers.
It was started in 1955, when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations joined after a long argument.
From 1955 to 2005, almost all union workers in the U.S. were part of the AFL-CIO.
However, in 2005, some large unions (like the Teamsters) left the AFL-CIO.
The president of the AFL-CIO, Richard Trumka served from 2009 until his death on August 5, 2021.
AFL-CIO official website
List of AFL-CIO affiliated unions
Speeches from the 2005 AFL-CIO convention
Teamsters' Disaffiliation letter to John Sweeney, President AFL-CIO 2005
Workers Independent News
Trade unions in the United States
The following list contains some of the most notable symbols in mathematics.
Please note that these symbols may have alternate meanings in different contexts.
Mathematical Symbols — Math Vault
Math Symbols List — RapidTables
The Jonas Brothers were an American Christian Pop band from Wyckoff, New Jersey.
It is made up of three brothers: Kevin Jonas, Joe, and Nick Jonas.
They released four albums before disbanding: It's About Time in 2006, Jonas Brothers in 2007, A Little Bit Longer in 2008, and Lines, Vines and Trying Times in 2009.
The band reunited in 2019, releasing the song "Sucker" as the lead single from their new album, Happiness Begins.
Happiness Begins entered at number one on the Billboard 200. "
Sucker" became their first chart-topper.
It's About Time (2006)
Jonas Brothers (2007)
A Little Bit Longer (2008)
Lines, Vines and Trying Times (2009)
Happiness Begins (2019)
RIAA Certification Database
2013 disestablishments in the United States
2010s disestablishments in New Jersey
2019 in entertainment
Artificial turf, or synthetic turf, is a man-made (something made by humans) surface made from synthetic materials, made to look like natural grass.
It is most often used in arenas for sports that are normally played on grass.
However, it is also used on lawns and in commercial applications.
The main advantage of artificial turf is low cost of maintenance as there is no need to water it and trim it.
Disadvantages include toxicity, limited lifetime, and the requirement for cleaning.
Artificial turf is extremely popular in sporting industry - especially in US and regions where weather or heavy use makes it difficult to sustain high quality live turf.
Artificial grass was first used in 1966 when it was installed in the Houston Astrodome, the world’s first domed indoor multipurpose sports stadium.
During the stadium’s inaugural season in 1965 its real grass failed to grow.
By the second half of the season the field conditions were so bad that they installed artificial grass, called "Astroturf".
There are several environmental concerns associated with artificial turf including loss of wildlife habitat, contaminated runoff, and migration of synthetic materials.
Contaminants that are harmful to aquatic life, such as zinc, have been found in storm water runoff from artificial turf.
Both infill particles and broken synthetic grass fibers can migrate away from yards or playing fields, contributing to microplastic pollution.
Rubber pollution in a domestic environment .
This article looks at how rubber crumb affects the environment.
List of the major synthetic turf benefits
Newgrange is a Megalithic Passage Tomb at Newgrange, County Meath, Republic of Ireland.
It was built about 3200 BC.
The kidney shaped mound covers an area of over one acre and is surrounded by 97 kerbstones, some of which are decorated with megalithic art.
The 19 metre long inner passage leads to a cruciform chamber with a corbelled roof.
It is estimated that the construction of the Passage Tomb at Newgrange would have taken a work force of 300 at least 20 years.
The passage and chamber of Newgrange are lit up by the winter solstice sunrise.
A shaft of sunlight shines through the roof box over the entrance and penetrates the passage to light up the chamber.
The dramatic event lasts for 17 minutes at dawn on the Winter Solstice and for a few mornings either side of the Winter Solstice.
Admission to the Newgrange chamber for the Winter Solstice sunrise is by lottery, application forms are available at the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre.
For the 2007 draw 28,106 applications were submitted.
In September each year, 50 names are drawn with 2 places are awarded to each name drawn.
Megalithic mounds
Megalithic mounds such as Newgrange entered Irish mythology as sídhe or fairy mounds.
Newgrange was said to be the home of Oenghus, the god of love.
The Passage Tomb at Newgrange was re-discovered in 1699 by the removal of material for road building.
A major excavation of Newgrange began in 1962; the original facade of sparkling white quartz was rebuilt using stone found at the site.
Newgrange has been designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and attracts 200,000 visitors per year.
There is no direct access to the Passage Tomb at Newgrange, access is by guided tour from the Brú na Bóinne Visitor Centre located close to the village of Donore, Co. Meath.
The last tour of Newgrange is 90 minutes before closing time of the Visitor Centre.
Newgrange chamber
Images from inside the chamber at Newgrange including the tri-spiral design on orthostat C10 which is probably the most famous Irish Megalithic symbol.
It is often referred to as a Celtic design, but it was carved at least 2500 years before the Celts reached Ireland.
At 12 inches in diameter the tri-spiral design is quite small in size, less than one-third the size of the tri-spiral design on the entrance stone.
David Américo Ortiz Arias (born November 18, 1975 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)  is a former Major League Baseball designated hitter who played for the Boston Red Sox.
Ortiz used to play for the Minnesota Twins from -.
Nicknamed "Big Papi" or "Señor Papi", Ortiz has played in four All-Star Games.
He holds the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54, which he set during the 2006 season.
He also won the 2010 Home Run DeCareer
in  he was signed by the Seattle Mariners who listed him as "David Arias" (possibly not understanding Spanish naming customs).
In 1996, the Mariners received Dave Hollins from the Minnesota Twins for a player to be named later.
Later that season, the Mariners announced that the player to be named later would be Arias.
When Ortiz arrived in Minnesota, he informed the team that he preferred to be listed as "David Ortiz."
He made his major league debut in September of 1997.
After moving up and down from the majors to the minors, Ortiz hit .272 with 20 home runs and 75 RBI in , when the Twins lost in the American League Championship Series to the eventual World Series champions Anaheim Angels.
In 2003, Ortiz was traded to the Boston Red Sox.
He hit 31 home runs that season.
The Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees in the ALCS.
Starting in 2004, however, Ortiz became known for his clutch hitting.
He hit two walk-off home runs in the postseason.
His first came when the Red Sox swept the Anaheim Angels in the American League Division Series.
He hit another walk-off home run in Game 4 of the ALCS against the Yankees.
And he also had a walk-off single in Game 5.
He was named ALCS MVP.
The Red Sox went on to win their first World Series since 1918.
They won two more World Series championships in 2007 and 2013.
Ortiz retired after the 2016 season.
The Red Sox were swept by the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS that year.
2019 shooting
On June 9, 2019, Ortiz was shot in the Dominican Republic while at a club in Santo Domingo.
Ortiz was "ambushed by a man who got off a motorcycle" and shot him in the back.
He was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
Fan-driven, Red Sox social media site
Ten Questions for David Ortiz  on Time.com (a division of Time Magazine)
Stephan and Big Papi
David Ortiz Interview
Arjumand Banu Begum (also called Mumtaz Mahal) was the second wife of Shah Jahan, the Mughal emperor.
Mumtaz Mahal (meaning 'Jewel of the palace') was the nickname her husband gave to her.
Mumtaz Mahal was born in April 1593 in Agra, India.
Her father was the Persian noble Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan, the brother of Nur Jahan, the Mughal Empress wife of Jahangir.
Mumtaz betrothed (nikah) with shah jahan at the age of 14 in 1607 when Shah Jahan was 15, Shah Jahan, later married two other women.
May 10, 1612 at the age of 19 the official marriage ceremony was held.
Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal were married for 19 years.
They had thirteen children together.
7 of the children died at birth or at a very young age.
Mumtaz travelled with Shah Jahan and his army as he carried out military campaigns.
Mumtaz Mahal supported Shah Jahan and they respected each other very much.
Mumtaz Mahal died on June 17, 1631 in Burhanpur in the Deccan (now in Madhya Pradesh) during the birth of their fourteenth child, a daughter named Gauhara Begum.
She had been with her husband as he was fighting a campaign in the Deccan Plateau.
Her body was kept at Burhanpur in a walled pleasure garden known as Zainabad.
A popular story says that on her deathbed, her last wish to the emperor was for a symbol or a monument to their love.
She also asked her husband not to marry anyone else.
The emperor promised immediately.
Her body was buried in the Taj Mahal in Agra.
It is also belived that Mumtaz Mahal died, aged 40, while giving birth to Gauhara Begum in Burhanpur, the cause of death being Postpartum hemorrhage, which caused considerable blood-loss after a painful labour of thirty hours.
Contemporary historians note that Princess Jahanara, aged 17, was so distressed by her mother's pain that she started distributing gems to the poor, hoping for divine intervention and Shah Jahan, himself, was noted as being "paralysed by grief" and weeping fits.
After she died, Shah Jahan went into mourning for 2 years.
When he appeared again, his hair had turned white, his back was bent, and his face worn.
Jahan's eldest daughter, Jahanara Begum, slowly brought him out of mourning and took the place of Mumtaz at court.
1593 births
1631 deaths
An imam  (; ) is an Islamic leader, often the leader of a mosque and/or community.
Similarly to spiritual leaders, the imam is the person who leads the prayer during Islamic gatherings.
More often the community turn to the mosque imam, if they have an Islamic question.
In smaller communities an imam could be the community leader based on the community setting.
Shia Islam uses the term differently.
Shiites give the title to only the one true leader of all the faithful.
Detailed description of the Shiite belief
Graphical illustration of the Shia sects
List of Sunni Imams
The Imam Movie
Earthsea is a fictional place made by Ursula K. Le Guin for her short story "The Word of Unbinding" in 1964, but that became more famous in her book A Wizard of Earthsea, first written in 1968.
The books that follow A Wizard of Earthsea are The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu, Tales from Earthsea and The Other Wind.
These are all set in the world of Earthsea
A Wizard of Earthsea (1968)
The Tombs of Atuan (1972)
The Farthest Shore (1974)
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea (1990)
Tales from Earthsea (2001)
The Other Wind (2001)
On April 26, 2007, it was announced that the OpenZaurus project was over.
Future development efforts are to focus on the Ångström distribution for embedded systems.
OpenZaurus project website
Hentges.net OZ with updated OPIE releases
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American writer.
He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning series called the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus Award-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle.
He writes in genres such as science fiction, horror and fantasy.
Hyperion Cantos series
Hyperion (1989) - Hugo Award 1990, Locus Award 1990 (Science Fiction)
The Fall of Hyperion (1990)
Endymion (1996)
The Rise of Endymion (1997)
Ilium/Olympos cycle
Ilium (2003) - Locus Award 2004
Olympos (2005)
Science fiction writers
Hyperion received the Hugo Award for best novel in 1990 and The Fall of Hyperion was nominated for the Nebula Award for best novel in 1990.
Three of the novels received the Locus Award for best science fiction novel: Hyperion (1990), The Fall of Hyperion (1991) and The Rise of Endymion (1998).