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The person may have strange fevers, sweating during the night, and itchy skin.
In the later stages of the disease, the person may feel very tired and their spleen may grow larger.
In simple words Hodgkin lymphoma is a malignant neoplasm with features resembling an inflammatory disorder, such features include fever, and inflammatory cell infiltrates.
It mainly affects the young adults especially young men with exception of nodular sclerosis which frequently affects young women.
The important histological finding is the presence of Reed-Sternberg cells.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954 – March 13, 2021) was an American professional boxer and film actor who competed in boxing from 1973 to 1987.
He reigned as undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987.
He was the world middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987.
Hagler fought out of Brockton, Massachusetts.
He won the championship from Alan Minter, in London, and successfully defended it eleven times before losing in a controversial fight with Sugar Ray Leonard.
Hagler retired after that fight to live and work in Italy.
On March 13, 2021, Hagler's wife Kay announced that Hagler had died unexpectedly at his home in Bartlett, New Hampshire, at the age of 66.
A wave of reports came out on Twitter, with thousands of people mourning the loss of Hagler.
Marvin Hagler's amateur boxing record
Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey
The Sierra Nevada, meaning "snowy range" in Spanish, is a mountain range in the region of Andalusia in Spain.
It contains the highest point of continental Spain, Mulhacén at 3,479 m.
It is a popular tourist destination, as its high peaks make skiing possible in Europe's most southern ski resort after Ski Centre on the island of Crete in an area along the Mediterranean Sea predominantly known for its warm temperatures and abundant sunshine.
At its foothills is found the city of Granada and, a little farther, Málaga and Almería.
Maps of the Sierra Nevada
XVII sport week -Old Pictures -
Sierra Nevada Official Website (In Spanish)
Sierra Nevada Piste Map
Francisco Pérez Raya, Joaquín Molero Mesa, Francisco Valle Tendero, 1992: "Parque Natural de Sierra Nevada.
Paisaje, fauna, flora, itinerarios".
"Flora de la Tundra de Sierra Nevada".
Pablo Prieto Fernández, Ed.
"Sierra Nevada: Guía de Montaña".
Aurelio del Castillo y Antonio del Castillo.
Penibética, 2003.
National parks in Spain
An airline is a company that transports people and items using airliners.
An airline may have as few as one airplane or a fleet of hundreds of airplanes.
Simple Flying
Wax is an organic chemical substance.
It is a type of lipid.
They are soft, and easy to shape at room temperature
Their melting point is above 45 °C
They cannot be dissolved in water
They are hydrophobic, repelling and repelled by water.
Some waxes, like beeswax, vegetable wax, and paraffin (a petroleum wax) occur naturally.
Another such wax is earwax, which occurs in the ear.
Other waxes may be manufactured.
People use waxes for various purposes:
Polyethylene terephthalate (aka PET, PETE or the obsolete PETP or PET-P) is a thermoplastic polymer resin of the polyester family.
The chemical industry makes it.
It is used in synthetic fibers; beverage, food and other liquid containers; thermoforming applications; and engineering resins often in combination with glass fiber.
It is one of the most important raw materials used in man-made fibers.
It is also used as the dielectric in multi-purpose capacitors (K73-16 series).
Depending on its processing and thermal history, it may exist both as an amorphous (transparent) and as a semi-crystalline (opaque and white) material.
Its monomer can be synthesized by the esterification reaction between terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol with water as a byproduct or the transesterification reaction between ethylene glycol and dimethyl terephthalate with methanol as a byproduct.
Polymerization is through a polycondensation reaction of the monomers (done immediately after esterification/transesterification) with ethylene glycol as the byproduct (the ethylene glycol is recycled in production).
The majority of the world's PET production is for man-made fibers (in excess of 60%) with bottle-making accounting for around 30% of global demand.
In discussing cloth uses, PET is generally referred to as simply "polyester" while "PET" is used most often to refer to packaging applications.
Nuclear energy  is the energy that holds together the nucleus of atoms.
Atoms are the most simple blocks that make up matter.
Every atom has in its center a very small nucleus.
Normally, nuclear energy is hidden inside the atoms.
However, some atoms are radioactive and send off part of their nuclear energy as radiation.
Radiation is given off from the nucleus of unstable isotopes of radioactive substances.
Nuclear energy can also be freed in two other ways: nuclear fusion and nuclear fission.
Nuclear fusion is the combining of two light atoms into a heavier one and nuclear fission is the splitting of a heavy atom.
Both ways make big amounts of energy.
They sometimes take place in nature.
Fusion is the source of heat in the sun.
Fission is also used in nuclear power plants to make electricity.
Both fusion and fission can be used in nuclear weapons.
Nuclear power generates a number of radioactive by-products, including tritium, cesium, krypton, neptunium and forms of iodine some of which can be dangerous for millions of years.
Nuclear energy production and use has been a controversial topic over the years.
Nuclear energy can supply a very large amount of electrical power for use in cities, but the nuclear materials that make the electricity can be very dangerous for thousands or millions of years after they have been used.
Countries have made decisions to use nuclear power based on their current energy demands as well as environmental conservation demands.
Countries could venture into nuclear energy production to help meet the rising energy demand, to help conserve the environment by avoiding air pollution, and also as a long lasting replacement for the depleting fossil fuels sources of energy, but would have to ensure the ongoing safety of production and waste storage.
There have been upgrades to reactor design to avoid nuclear energy accidents like those of Chernobyl and Fukushima, but accidents still continue to occur and ageing reactors are a safety concern.
Countries using the nuclear energy production process to make dangerous weapons of mass destruction is a related concern.
What is nuclear energy?
The main game
Two contestants fought against each other in the main game—the returning champion and a challenging contestant.
The returning champion was represented by the color red.
The challenger was represented by the color blue.
The host, Jim Perry, then asked a toss-up question, which was asked to 100 people before the show (example: "We surveyed 100 lawyers: Have you ever defended a person who you believed was guilty?
How many lawyers said they have?").
The contestant he asked it to would provide what they thought the number of people who gave the answer the host gave.
The other contestant would then say whether they thought the actual number was higher or lower than the first contestant's guess.
Whoever is closer to the number got a chance at the cards.
There were two rows of five cards: the top red row (for the champion) and the bottom blue row (for the challenger).
The contestant in control had to predict whether each card was higher or lower than the card before it.
There were two games.
Whoever won both games would go on to play the Money Cards.
The Money Cards
The winning contestant would then play the Money Cards to win more money.
He/she was given $200 to start out with.
They then had to predict whether each card was higher or lower than the one before it, just like before.
This time, they had to bet money on each guess (example: $200 higher than a 2).
The contestant worked their way across the bottom row, in which there were four cards, and then made it to the second row and were given $200 more.
The least a person could bet on each card for the first two rows was $50.
They then worked their way across that row, until they reached the top row, where there was only one card.
That row was called the "Big Bet" row.
There, the contestant had to bet at least half of what they won before.
Card Sharks aired on NBC from 1978 to 1981 and was hosted by Jim Perry.
It returned on CBS and in syndication in 1986.
The CBS version was hosted by Bob Eubanks and ran until 1989.
The syndicated version was hosted by comedian Bill Rafferty, but ran until 1987.
In 2001, Card Sharks came back, hosted by Pat Bullard.
However, this version had different rules than the other ones.
In this one, two teams of two contestants (two at a time) had to guess higher or lower (or predict if the next card had exactly the same number as the previous one) on one row of seven cards.
This version was not very popular and was cancelled after 13 weeks.
Many Card Sharks fans say this version is the worst game show revival of all time.
Card Sharks returned to television in 2019 as an hour-long series hosted by Joel McHale, airing on ABC.
The gameplay is similar to the 1978-81 and 1986-89 versions.
There are two families, each with five family members on their team.
They have to guess the answers to a survey question asked to 100 people to win points for their team.
The answers are seen on a huge survey board.
Several survey questions are asked by host Steve Harvey.
The point values are doubled at the third question, and they are tripled for the fourth question.
If a Sudden Death question is needed, only the #1 answer will be on the board.
Whoever reaches 300 points or more will win the game and go on to play the bonus round, Fast Money.
Fast Money
Two members of the winning family are asked five questions, one member at a time.
One member stays on stage and is asked the questions while the other member is off-stage.
After the answers are given (or if the time limit, either 15 seconds or 20 seconds, is up), the answers and their point values are revealed.
After that, the other member is asked the same five questions, with a time limit of either 20 or 25 seconds.
If they give the same answer to a question that the first member gave, a double-buzz will be heard, and the host will say, "Try again," after which another answer is given.
Afterwards, the answers and their point values are revealed.
If both contestants get 200 or more points, they win the grand prize.
In the Bullseye round, each family member on each team went to the faceoff podium to try to get the #1 answer to a survey question.
Each time they got it right, they won a dollar amount for their team's "bank."
Each question was worth different dollar amounts, anywhere from $500 to $5,000.
Whatever they won in this round was what they would play for in Fast Money.
In the Bankroll round, only one family member from each team went to the podium.
Only three questions were asked this time; they played in all three questions.
The Bullseye round returned for John O'Hurley's last season in 2009.
John O'Hurley did it the same way Ray Combs did.
It was just like the old Bullseye round used from 1992 to 1994.
However, it was thrown out again in 2010.
Family Feud aired on ABC from 1976 to 1985.
A syndicated version aired from 1977 to 1985.
Both were hosted by actor Richard Dawson, who became famous for kissing all of the female contestants.
In 1988, Family Feud returned on CBS and in syndication with a new host, comedian Ray Combs.
In 1992, the CBS version was expanded to an hour and included the Bullseye round.
It was given a new name: The Family Feud Challenge.
The syndicated version also got the Bullseye round in the Fall of that year and was named The New Family Feud.
In 1993, The Family Feud Challenge was cancelled.
In 1994, Ray Combs was fired and Richard Dawson was brought back to host the syndicated version.
He only lasted one year, until 1995.
In 1999, the new version came on in syndication, with comedian Louie Anderson as host.
Many people did not like him, and in 2002, he was replaced by Richard Karn.
In 2006, Richard Karn left the show and John O'Hurley took his place, and in 2010 John O'Hurley left and Steve Harvey took his place.
The show is still on the air today.
American television game shows
The Bank of America Stadium is a sports stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.
It was built in 1996 for the Carolina Panthers.
It used to be called Ericsson Stadium until it was renamed in 2004.
The stadium seats 74,867 people.
Stadium site on panthers.com
National Football League venues
The company went in and out of business a few times between World War I and World War II.
Lionel Martin left the company in 1926.
The company was sold from one person to another many times until 1947, when David Brown bought it.
David Brown also bought Lagonda, and used Lagonda engines in his cars.
Aston Martin cars built when David Brown owned the company had the letters "DB" in the name.
An Aston Martin won the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1959.
David Brown sold the company again.
The company was having trouble staying open in the 1970s.
Victor Gauntlett bought part of the company and kept it going with help from buyers of other parts of the company.
In 1991 the Ford Motor Company bought Aston Martin and started making DB cars again.
Ford owned Aston Martin until 2007 when they sold it to Investment Dar and Adeem Investments.
The Sydney Opera House is an opera house and iconic building on the shores of Sydney Harbour, in Sydney, Australia.
It is shaped like the sails of a boat.
Many concerts and events take place there, with 2000 performances a year presented by Opera Australia, Australia's national opera company.
It is a famous tourist attraction.
The land where the Sydney Opera House stands is called Bennelong Point.
Bennelong Point was once home to Fort Macquarie (the fort was built in 1817 and knocked down in 1901).
On 10 August 1902, the Fort Macquarie Tram Depot was opened at Bennelong Point.
The depot was knocked down in 1958.
The Sydney Opera House was built on the same spot and the work began in 1959.
It was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon.
He won a design competition in 1957.
Utzon left the project in February 1966 because the government was not paying his invoices.
The building finally opened on 20 October in 1973.
The project was completed ten years later and cost more than fourteen times the original budget.
In 2001, Utzon was invited back to restore the building and change it back towards his original designs.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, in Sydney Harbour, is a bridge that joins north Sydney with south Sydney.
People can cross the bridge by car, walking or by train.
It now carries eight traffic lanes.
Using six intended traffic lanes and an additional two that were formally tram tracks.
There are two railway lanes that head in opposite directions.
There is a tunnel that goes underneath.
The bridge is an important tourist attraction.
The scenery attracts many tourists and people living in or near the city.
One of the many attractions of the Harbour Bridge is its famous 'BridgeClimb'.
Luna Park Sydney is located next to the bridge.
The bridge is  long and  wide.
The highest point of the arch is  tall.
Building began on 19 March 1923 and ended in 1932.
John Bradfield led the bridge's building.
The standards of industrial safety during construction were poor by today's standards.
Sixteen workers died during construction,[31] but surprisingly only two from falling off the bridge.
Several more were injured from unsafe working practices undertaken whilst heating and inserting its rivets, and the deafness experienced by many of the workers in later years was blamed on the project.
Henri Mallard between 1930 and 1932 produced hundreds of stills[32] and film footage[33] which reveal at close quarters the bravery of the workers in tough Depression-era conditions.[citation needed]
The total financial cost of the bridge was AU£6.25 million, which was not paid off in full until 1988.[34]
Bridges in Australia
1930s establishments in Australia
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports field in Sydney.
Many professional sporting events take place there.
These sports include cricket, rugby, and the Australian Football League.
Buildings and structures in Sydney
Sports buildings in Australia
Sports in Sydney
Darling Harbour is a harbour in Sydney, Australia.
It has many shops and places to eat, and people like visiting it.
It also has the Sydney Aquarium.
Transport in Sydney
The word "Bondi" is an aboriginal (native) word which means water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks.
In 1809, a road builder William Roberts received a grant of land in the Bondi area.
In 1851 Edward Smith Hall and Francis O'Brien bought  of Bondi and named it the "Bondi Estate."
Hall was O'Brien's father-in-law.
In between 1855 and 1877 O'Brien bought his father-in-laws share of the land and named it the "O'Brien Estate".
He made the beach and surrounding land available to the public as a picnic ground and amusement resort.
As the beach became more popular, O'Brien wanted to stop public access.
The Government believed that the Municipal council needed to step in.
On the 9th June 1882, Bondi Beach became a public beach.
Many people visit Bondi Beach throughout the year, ranging from 4000 people to 9000 people.
Bondi Beach has an underwater shark net that they share with other beaches along the southern coast.
In 2004, Surf Lifesaving Australia gave different hazard ratings to each end of the beach.
The northern end was rated a gentle 4 with 10 as the most hazardous, while the southern end was rated a dangerous 7 due to the famous rip current known as the "Backpackers Rip".
The south end is generally reserved for surf board riding.
Bondi Beach was added to the Australia National Heritage list in 2008.
Pods of whales and dolphins are sometimes sighted.
Fairy penguins while rare are sometimes also seen.
Lifesavers
Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club was the world's first livesaving club.
North Bondi Surf Livesaving Club is a federation club.
Both clubs were founded in 1907.
Both clubs were involved in the biggest rescue ever on one day known as 'Black Sunday'.
Bondi Chill - Music Made in Bondi Beach
Geography of New South Wales
Stadium Australia, known for sponsorship reasons as ANZ Stadium, formerly Telstra Stadium, is a sports stadium in Sydney, Australia.
The 2000 Summer Olympics took place there.
Now it is used for many other sports, like rugby and AFL.
The stadium opened in March 1999.
In 2002, the stadium was named after the sponsor Telstra.
1 January 2008 it was renamed the ANZ Stadium.
Football stadiums
Football in Australia
The Sydney Aquarium is a public aquarium in Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
It has many fish, sharks and seals.
There is also a seal show.
The aquarium was opened in 1988.
Nigga is a term derived from the racial slur "nigger".
It is generally used by African-Americans (especially young adults), because other ethnic groups using it is considered offensive.
The use for this word is for a good friend, it can also be defined as a substitute for "nigger" in a less serious tone.
Note that this version of the word does not use a "hard R."
Germans () are the people of Germany.
Descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren) of Germans in other countries are often called "ethnic Germans".
There are many ethnic Germans in Belgium, Denmark, Russia, Poland and France, but also in countries such as the United States, Brazil, and Canada.
In total, there are about 100 million Germans in the world.
Germans speak the German language (Hochdeutsch = Standard German) and dialects such as Low German and Upper German.
Most people in Switzerland and Austria are native speakers of the German language.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) is a proposed U.S. law in the U.S. Congress.
If voted into law, it would stop an employer from firing an employee because he or she is gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.
The law would not apply to churches and other religious organizations.
It is also known as H.R. 2015.
It was introduced on April 24, 2007.
The first proposed law to protect gay workers was introduced in the U.S. Congress in 1974, but none were voted into law.
In 1996, the proposed law failed in the Senate by one vote.
This is the first time a law has included "gender identity" in addition to "sexual orientation".
This is intended to address cases where gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender ("GLBT") employees have been discriminated against by their employer because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
These employees are not currently protected by the U.S. federal courts.
Opponents of the law often argue that sexual orientation and gender identity are a choice, unlike other protected factors such as gender, race and religion, and thus should not be equally protected.
They also often argue that homosexuality is "unnatural" or "immoral".
They also often present religious arguments against the law.
Previous bills have not included transgender people.
The new bill would protect transgender people, and its inclusion has been debated in the GLBT community.
In August 2004, the Human Rights Campaign – an important LGBT organization in favor of the bill – said it will only support the bill if it includes transgender people.
In 1999, the [ngltf.org National Gay and Lesbian Task Force] was the first gay civil rights group to stop work on ENDA because it did not include transgender people.
The group has worked to build approval in the community to support a bill that includes transgender people.
It participated in redrafting the current "trans-inclusive" bill.
Cthulhu is a fictional deity created by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Cthulhu is a powerful monster from another planet.
It (Cthulhu is neither male nor female) is very ancient compared to humans, being around since the dinosaurs.
It has the alien appearance of a large green dragon with the head of an octopus and human-like hands.
There are said to be many people who worship it as their deity because of his powers over the mind.
Cthulhu is one of the Great Old Ones, a group of powerful beings from another place that now inhabit Earth, waiting to rise up(when the stars are right) and destroy the human race so they can rule the planet.
The Old Ones are neither good nor evil, meaning that they do not hate humans, they just do not care about them.
They think of humans as if they could be ants.
Also, their appearance is so unlike anything of this world, that it is said that any human who so much as gazes upon one of them will go insane.
In one of Lovecraft's stories, The Call of Cthulhu, he said that Cthulhu currently lies in a dreamlike state in the underwater sunken city of R'lyeh (rill-ee-yeh), waiting for the time when the Old Ones shall rise again.
In the story, R'lyeh is located in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Diabetes insipidus is a medical condition caused when vasopressin does not appear in a person's blood.
Vasopressin is released from the brain, and travels in the blood to the kidneys.
There, it pulls water out of the urine, which reduces the amount of urine stored in the bladder.
If there is no vasopressin in the blood, the kidneys leave the water in the urine, and the bladder holds more liquid.
This means a person needs to urinate more often.
It also causes thirst.
Increased thirst and urination are symptoms of regular diabetes (diabetes mellitus).
That's why diabetes insipidus shares the name "diabetes."
The Caecilians are an order (Gymnophiona or Apoda) of amphibians.
Most of them look like either earthworms or snakes.
They burrow in the ground.
For this reason, they are the least explored order of amphibians.
Caecilians have no limbs.
For this reason, the smaller species look like worms, while the larger species with lengths up to 1.5 m look similar to snakes.
The tail is short and the cloaca is near the end of the body.
Their skin is smooth and usually dark in colour.
Some species have colorful skins, though.
Inside the skin are calcite scales.
Due to their underground life the eyes are small.
Skin often covers them, to protect them.
This has led to the idea that they are blind, which is not the case.
Because of the skin cover, their seeing is limited to simple dark-light perception.
They can tell the difference between dark and light.
All Caecilians have two tentacles at their head.
The tentacles are probably used for a second smelling capability in addition to the normal sense of smell based in the nose.
Most Caecilians have lungs, except for two lungless species.
Those that have lungs also use the skin or the mouth to get oxygen.
Often the left lung is much smaller than the right one.
This is an adaptation to the shape of the body, which is also be found in snakes.
They are mostly distributed in the tropics of South and Central America, Africa, and South Asia.
The diet of caecilians is not well known.
They live in the moist, lower habitats.
In South America they can be found well into the temperate north of Argentina.
They can be seen as far south as Buenos Aires, when they are carried by the flood waters of the Paraná River coming from farther north.
No studies have been made in central Africa, but it is likely that caecilians are found in the tropical rainforests there.
The northernmost distribution is of the species Ichthyophis sikkimensis of Northern India.
In Africa caecilians are found from Guinea Bissau (Geotrypetes) to Northern Zambia (Scolecomorphus).
In South-East Asia the Wallace Line is not crossed, and they are not found in Australia or the islands in between.
Ichthyophis is also found in South China and North-Vietnam.
Caecilians are the only order of amphibians which only use internal insemination.
The male Caecilians have a penis-like organ, the phallodeum, which is inserted into the cloaca of the female for 2 to 3 hours.
About 25% of the species are oviparous (egg-laying); the rest are ovoviviparous, with eggs hatching inside the mother.
The eggs are guarded by the female.
For some species the young caecilians are already metamorphosed when they hatch, other hatch as larvae.
The larvae are not fully aquatic, but spend the daytime in the soil near the water.
In ovoviviparous species the foetus is fed inside the female with special cells of the oviduct, which are eaten by the foetus with special scraping teeth.
Some larvae, such as those of Typhlonectes, are born with enormous external gills which are shed almost immediately.
The egg laying species Boulengerula taitanus feeds its young by developing a special outer layer of skin, which the young peel off with similar teeth.
Ichthyophis is oviparous and is known to show maternal care.
The diet of caecilians is not known well, though it seems it mostly consists of insects and invertebrates found in the habitat of the respecitive species.
The stomach content of 14 specimens of Afrocaecilia taitana consisted of mostly  organic material and plant remains.
Where identifiable remains were most abundant, they were found to be termite heads.
Caecilians in captivity can be easily fed with earthworms, and worms are also common in the habitat of many caecilian species.
The name Caecilian derives from the Latin word caecus = blind, referring to the small or sometimes non-existing eyes.
The name dates back to the taxonomic name of the first species described by Carolus Linnaeus, which he gave the name Caecilia tentaculata.
The taxonomic name of the order derives from the Greek words γυμνος (gymnos, naked) and οφις (ophis, snake), as the caecilians were originally thought to be related to snakes.
Taxonomically the caecilians are divided into ten families.
The species numbers are approximate and many of these species are identified on the basis of only one specimen.
It is likely that not all species have been described yet, and that some of the species described below as different may be combined into one species in future reclassifications.
Beaked Caecilians (Rhinatrematidae) – 2 genera, 9 species
Fish Caecilians (Ichthyophiidae) – 2 genera, 39 species
Indian Caecilians (Uraeotyphlidae) – 1 genus, 5 species
Tropical Caecilians (Scolecomorphidae) – 2 genera, 6 species
Aquatic Caecilians (Typhlonectidae) – 5 genera, 13 species
Common Caecilians (Caeciliidae) – 26 genera, 99 species
A Swiss researcher Daniel Hofer has recently found that certain caecilians produce potent skin poisons from specialized poison glands.
The poison prevents predation and the poison of the bright yellow caecilian of São Tomé Island (Schistometopum thomense) in West Africa kills other animals kept in the same tank within a few days.
The chemical contents of caecilian poison have not been well studied.
Werner Himstedt has shown that the skin glands of Ichthyophis protects the eggs from germs and fungi.
It has also been shown that these poisons are very different from those from other amphibians such as the arrow poison frogs.
In 2020, scientists from the University of Utah said some caecilians have venom glands in their mouths that come out near their teeth.
They did not see any muscles to push the venom out the way snakes have.
The scientists said they thought the caecilian would have to hold on to its prey for a long time and thrash its body around to get the venom out.
The hatchlings of the oviparous East African Boulengerula taitanus have special teeth that allow them to peel and eat their mother's skin.
The mother's skin in this species was found to be thicker than normal and contained a high level of fat and other nutrients.
Werner Himstedt, Die Blindwühlen,  (German)
Image of Grandisonia alternans, a Seychelles caecilain
New Scientist article on Boulengerula taitanus
Video of Boulengerula behaviour
A bullet-proof vest (also called "bulletproof vest", "body armor" or "body armour") is a protective piece of clothing that covers the torso (chest, abdomen, and back) of a person.
It protects the wearer from most pistol and revolver bullets and from fragments of explosive devices such as grenades.
Bullet-proof vests are worn by police officers, soldiers, security guards, and people who are at risk of being shot (such as the leader of a country).
How much protection does a bullet-proof vest provide?
A bullet from a strong sniper or rifle can pierce a bullet-proof vest.
Types of vests
Bullet-proof vests for soldiers are heavier and stronger than the bullet-proof vests worn by police officers and security guards, because soldiers need protection from rifle and machine gun bullets.
Bullet-proof vests for soldiers often have flat pieces of ceramic material or a strong metal such as titanium.
These materials can stop bullets from many rifles and handguns.
Helmet- soldiers and some types of police officers (called tactical police officers) also wear helmets to protect themselves
A dry suit is a type of protective clothing worn by scuba divers who are swimming in very cold water, such as in the Arctic ocean or the North Atlantic ocean.
A dry suit is similar to a wetsuit, in that it helps to insulate the diver's body from the cold of the ocean.
However, a wetsuit lets water to touch the diver's body, but a dry suit is sealed so it does not allow water to touch the diver's body.
This means that a dry suit offers more protection from the cold ocean water.
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A gauntlet is a protective covering that is used in some gloves and mittens.
A gauntlet protects the wrists and the lower part of the forearm.
Gloves or mittens for motorcycle drivers, snowmobile drivers, construction workers, forestry workers, and mountain climbers often have gauntlets.
The gauntlet helps to protect the wrist and forearm from cold, and from being scraped or cut if there is an accident.
The gauntlet of a glove or mitten is usually made from a material that is similar to the protective fabric or material used elsewhere on the glove or mitten.
A pair of leather motorcycle gloves with gauntlets will usually have leather gauntlets.
A pair of insulated nylon snowmobilers' mittens with gauntlets will usually have gauntlets made from insulated nylon fabric.
The word "gauntlet" is sometimes used in the following figure of speech: "to throw down the gauntlet."
If a person says that "Fred threw down the gauntlet at the committee meeting last night", they mean that Fred issued a public challenge at the committee meeting.
Another figure of speech is the phrase "run the gauntlet."
This means to "face a trial or test."
For example, if a sailor commits an offense, his comrades may form a line, and each comrade will hit the sailor as he passes by the line.
This is called "running the gauntlet."
Nylon is an artificial fibre.
It is one of the most commonly used polyamides, and was first used on February 28, 1935.
Nylon makes a silky material which was first used in toothbrushes.
It is strong, hard and water resistant.
It is used to make clothes.
In fact, polyamides are mostly used for synthetic fibres in clothing.
Nylon can also be used to make other materials, such as parachutes, ropes, string for tyres, carpets, fishing nets and cloth and socks.
The forearm is the part of the human arm between the elbow and the wrist.
It has many muscles including the ones that move the fingers.
Mountain climbing  is a hobby/job where people climb mountains.
It may involve hiking, rock climbing, as well as crossing glaciers.
Someone who does mountain climbing is called a mountain climber or mountaineer.
Mountain climbers are sage to use the strength of their arms and legs to climb up mountains.
Many mountain climbers use ropes and wear special shoes and safety equipment.
Most mountain climbers go up mountains as a hobby or as a recreational activity.
A small number of mountain climbers do mountain climbing as an occupation or job.
They get paid by outdoor clothing companies or universities to climb up mountains, or they are hired as a guide by recreational mountain climbers.the first woman climbed Mount Everest: Sangeetha Aroa
Climbing mountains can be dangerous as each year, people are seriously injured or even killed from falling, being covered in an avalanche of snow, or getting too cold.
To reduce the risks, mountain climbers learn how to climb safely.
As well, they wear safety equipment such as helmets and use ropes, compasses, and first aid kits.
Mountain climbers in snowy areas who face the danger of being buried in an avalanche of snow also bring other equipment, such as shovels, radio transmitters, and long poles (for finding people who are buried in the snow) and emergency G.P.S.
A figure of speech is an indirect way of communicating an idea.
Many figures of speech are not meant to be understood exactly as they are said: they are not literal, factual statements.
They use indirect language, and mean something different from ordinary language.
Linguists call these figures of speech "tropes"—a play on words, using words in a way that is different from its accepted literal or normal form.
DiYanni wrote: "Rhetoricians have catalogued more than 250 different figures of speech, expressions or ways of using words in a nonliteral sense".
Metaphors are very common examples.
A common figure of speech is to say that someone "threw down the gauntlet".
This does not mean that a person threw a protective wrist-covering down on the ground.
Instead, it usually means that the person issued a public challenge to another person (or many persons).
List of common figures of speech
Allegory — A sustained metaphor in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject.
May be continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse.
For example: "The ship of state has sailed through rougher storms than the tempest of these lobbyists".
Alliteration — when a sentence or phrase has many words that start with the same sound.
Antanaclasis — Repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time.
Antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.
Aphorism — A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion, an adage
Euphemism — Substitution of a less offensive or more agreeable term for another
Hyperbole — Use of exaggerated terms for emphasis
Innuendo — Having a hidden meaning in a sentence that makes sense whether it is detected or not
Irony — Implying the opposite of the standard meaning, such as describing a bad situation as "good times".
Metonymy — A trope through proximity or correspondence, for example referring to actions of the U.S. President as "actions of the White House".
Metaphor — an explanation of an object or idea through juxtaposition of disparate things with a similar characteristic, such as describing a courageous person as having a "heart of a lion".
Paradox — Use of apparently contradictory ideas to point out some underlying truth
Proverb — Succinct or pithy expression of what is commonly observed and believed to be true
Pun — Play on words that will have two meanings
Rhetorical question — statement in the form of a question, asked and answered without a needed reply
Synecdoche — Related to metonymy and metaphor, creates a play on words by referring to something with a related concept.
For example, referring to the whole with the name of a part, such as "hired hands" for workers; a part with the name of the whole, such as "the law" for police officers; the general with the specific, such as "bread" for food; the specific with the general, such as "cat" for a lion; or an object with the material it is made from, such as "bricks and mortar" for a building.
Truism — a self-evident statement
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) was a rich internet application distributed by Adobe Systems.
Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Player were used to create and view animated content that could be placed on web pages.
Adobe Flash was used commonly on the Internet by web browsers.
Flash was created by FutureWave (a multimedia company) in 1995.
Then it was called "FutureSplash Animator" (this was Flash 1.0).
FutureWave along with Flash were soon bought by Macromedia around 1997, who in December 2005 was again bought by Adobe Systems.
From Flash version 2 to 8 it was called "Macromedia Flash", now it is called "Adobe Flash".
In 2012, Adobe discontinued the Solaris version of Flash Player, and made the Linux version only for Google Chrome.
The Android version was removed from Google Play.
In 2020, Adobe discontinued Adobe Flash, because Adobe claims that WebGL, HTML5, and WebAssembly serve as good alternatives for Adobe Flash.
How Adobe Flash was used
Flash video games are popular on the Internet, with websites like Newgrounds, Kongregate, and Armor Games are dedicated to Flash-based games.
Popular Flash games include Transformice, Farmville, Alien Hominid, QWOP and Club Penguin.
Adobe AIR allows the creation of Flash-based mobile games, which can be published to the Google Play and the Apple App Store.
2002 software
In Object-oriented programming languages, inheritance is a way to add functionality.
Object-oriented programming has the notion of classes (and perhaps interfaces).
A derived class inherits most fields and methods from its parent class.
It can modify the behaviour of the parent, by adding new fields and methods, or by modifying existing ones.
Depending on the programming language used, there may be certain restrictions when extending a class.
Specialisation: The child class extends the functionality of the parent.
That way a Bank account may have fields for balance, account number and owner; a subclass interest-earning account may add fields like interest rate and interest received.
Overriding: The child class can redefine the behaviour of the parent class.
Code reuse: Code that is common to many classes can be placed in a parent class, and reused.
An example can be a Car class.
You could create a Ferrari class which would inherit from Car, and also make a Toyota class which would also inherit from Car.
This way, all the fields and methods (drive method, brake method, color field...) would also be inside of Ferrari and Toyota, and you wouldn't need to copy the code twice.
However, maybe inside of Car you could have a brand field.
This brand field would be equal to nothing, but inside of Ferrari the field might be equal to "ferrari" and in Toyota to "toyota".
Of course, you could not just create a Car, because otherwise that field would be missing.
In order to prevent people from just creating a Car, you turn the Car into an abstract class.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963) is a former American basketball player.
He is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time.
He won six championships and was the Finals MVP 6 times.
He played for the  Chicago Bulls and the Washington Wizards.
Jordan led the Bulls to a then-record 72 wins in the 1995-96 NBA Season.
Jordan earned the nicknames "Air Jordan" and "His Airness" due to his leaping ability which was illustrated by performing slam dunks from the free throw line in slam dunk contests.
Jordan won two Olympic gold medals with Team USA, famously playing on the 1992 Dream Team.
During the early part of his college career, he went by Mike Jordan, and he still uses Mike as a nickname to this day.
Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, he is the son of Deloris (née Peoples), who worked in banking, and James R. Jordan, Sr.,
an equipment supervisor.
His family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina when he was a toddler.[7]
Jordan is the fourth of five children.
He has two older brothers, Larry Jordan and James R. Jordan, Jr., one older sister, Deloris, and a younger sister, Roslyn.
Jordan's brother James retired in 2006 as the Command Sergeant Major of the 35th Signal Brigade of the XVIII Airborne Corps in the U.S. Army.
As a sophomore at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, Jordan did not make his school's varsity (main) basketball team.
This inspired him to work harder, and he made the team the next year.
In 1981, he went to the University of North Carolina to play.
He averaged 13.5 points per game his freshman year, and 20 points per game his sophomore year.
Under coach Dean Smith's system, no player was allowed to average more than 20 ppg.
North Carolina won the national championship in 1982, Jordan's freshman year.
Jordan made the winning shot with 18 seconds left in the championship game.
After Jordan's junior year in college, he said that he would be leaving college to play in the NBA.
The Chicago Bulls chose him with the third pick in the 1984 NBA draft.
He never served as a team captain in college.
NBA career
Jordan made an appearance in Michael Jackson's "Jam" music video in 1992; in the video, Jackson teaches Jordan how to dance and Jordan also teaches Michael how to play basketball.
In 1993, after winning three NBA championships in a row, Jordan said that he would retire and switch to a career in minor league baseball.
He played for the Birmingham Barons, a minor league team in the Chicago White Sox's system, but hit only one home run during his whole baseball career.
In 1995, Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA with a two word announcement: "I'm back".
He was back in time to play for the Bulls in the 1995 playoffs, but the Bulls lost in the playoffs before reaching the NBA Finals.
However, the next three seasons after that, the Bulls won the championship.
This included the 1995-1996 season, when the Bulls won 72 games in the regular season and only lost 10.
In 1996, he starred in the live-action/animated comedy movie Space Jam as himself.
Jordan retired for a second time in 1998, but was still not done playing.
He would buy part of the Washington Wizards basketball team, and played for the Wizards from 2001 to 2003, and ended his playing career after that.
Game-winning shots
During his NBA career, Jordan had at least 29 game-winning shots on field goals or free throws when deciding a game in the last 30 seconds of the game.
In addition to well-documented instances, he made a pair of free throws in a road game at New Jersey, on March 16, 1996.
While making the free throws, WGN play-by-play announcer Wayne Larivee remarked, "Michael Jordan, ice water in his veins".
Player Profile
Michael Jordan played mostly shooting guard.
Other than a brief spell in April 1989 during which he played point guard, Jordan almost always played shooting guard during his time with the Chicago Bulls.
He was widely heralded as the most skilled and accomplished basketball player of all time.
After retiring
Jordan is now the majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets.
He was chosen to enter the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
Michael Jordan's NBA profile
Chicago Bulls players
Washington Wizards players
Space Jam characters
Lawrence Taylor (February 4, 1959) is a retired American football player who played for the New York Giants in the National Football League (NFL).
Taylor was famous for sacking the other team's quarterbacks.
After he retired he got in trouble for doing drugs.
He has since stopped doing drugs.
He also appeared on Dancing With the Stars in the 2009 season.
American football linebackers
Sportspeople from Virginia
New York Giants players
The New York Giants are an American football team.
They are a part of the National Football League (NFL).
Even though they are called the New York Giants they do not play in New York.
They play in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
New York is right across the Hudson river from East Rutherford, so they consider New York as home.
The Giants play in MetLife Stadium, which they share with the New York Jets.
The New York Giants started playing in 1925.
They were named for the baseball team also called the New York Giants.
They have won six NFL championships, including some before the Super Bowl era.
On February 3, 2008, the Giants beat the previously unbeaten New England Patriots (17-14) to win their third Super Bowl championship in Super Bowl XLII as well as stopping them from achieving the NFL's first 19-0 season.
The previous two Super Bowl victories came against the Denver Broncos and the Buffalo Bills (when they won the game on a missed last second field goal that went "wide right".)
The Giants won Super Bowl XLVI against the Patriots but this time the Patriots went 13-3 in the regular season.
The Giants beat them in Foxborough during the 2011 season.
1925 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in New Jersey
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria; pronounced ah-KEEM ah-LAH-zhoo-wahn), formerly Akeem Olajuwon, is a retired Nigerian-American basketball player.
He is considered by some to be the greatest defensive player in basketball history.
Hakeem Olajuwon travelled all the way from his home country of Nigeria to play basketball in the United States.
He won two National Basketball Association (NBA) championships with the Houston Rockets.
During his career, he was nicknamed "The Dream", often extended to "Hakeem the Dream", due to his grace both on and off the court.
His best move was called the "Dream Shake".
He also called himself "Little Moses" after one of his biggest idols, Moses Malone, who played for the Houston Rockets while Olajuwon played for the University of Houston Cougars men's basketball team.
Hakeem Olajuwon's NBA legends profile
Houston Rockets players
Nigerian sportspeople
People from Lagos
Toronto Raptors players
An ecomuseum is a museum which shows things about the identity of a place or landscape.
Many of the people who live in that place help to organize things in the museum.
The ecomuseum tries to help the welfare and development of the local community.
Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965) is a retired American basketball player.
He played for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for most of his career and won six championships with the Bulls, although he also played with Charles Barkley in 1999 for the Houston Rockets and the Portland Trail Blazers near the end of his career.
In addition to his chemistry with Michael Jordan, Pippen was known for his defense.
His unusually long wingspan allowed him to clog passing lanes and make chase-down blocks.
Pippen went by Scott Pippen early in his NBA career.
Later on he earned the nicknames Pip, Robin (to Michael Jordan's Batman) and later Batman (Jordan was then called Superman).
Off the court, Pippen developed a reputation for not leaving tips at restaurants, and got the nickname No Tippin' Pippen.
NBA legends profile
Portland Trail Blazers players
The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team.
They play in Chicago, Illinois at the United Center.