the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Each unit (1, 2, …, 9) was assigned a separate letter, each tens (10, 20, …, 90) a separate letter, and each hundreds (100, 200, …, 900) a separate letter.
This requires 27 letters, so the 24-letter Greek alphabet was extended by using three obsolete letters: fau ϝ, (also used are [Sigma (letter)|sigma] ϛ or, in modern Greek, ΣΤ) for 6, koppa ϟ for 90, and sampi ϡ for 900.
To distinguish numerals from letters they are followed by the "keraia" (Greek —insect antenna), a symbol similar to an acute sign (Unicode U+0374).
This alphabetic system operates on the additive principle in which the numeric values of the letters are added together to form the total.
For example, 241 is represented as ΣΜΑʹ (200 + 40 + 1).
To represent numbers from 1,000 to 999,999 the same letters are reused to serve as thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands.
A "left keraia" (Unicode U+0375, ‘Greek Lower Numeral Sign’) is put in front of thousands to distinguish.
Higher numbers
The Greeks also used the myriad to denote 10,000 (Μʹ) and the myriad myriad for one hundred million (ΜΜʹ).
The Greek Number Converter
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 27, 2018) was an award-winning American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism.
His most famous work is in the science fiction area, where he won many Hugo and Nebula awards.
Web of the City (1958) (originally published as Rumble)
Spider Kiss (1961) (originally published as Rockabilly)
"A Boy and his Dog"
The Starlost #1: Phoenix Without Ashes (1975)
American critics
writers from Cleveland, Ohio
In this system, zero does not have a place, and the number values for each letter are added together.
Each unit (1, 2, ..., 9) is assigned a separate letter, each tens (10, 20, ..., 90) a separate letter, and each hundreds (100, 200, ..., 900) a separate letter.
Main table
Hebrew has masculine and feminine ways of saying the words.
For just counting, feminine is used.
Otherwise, the gender is used (ex.
two boys, two girls).
The number is first, then the noun (ex.
shlosha yeladim), except for number one where it is reversed (ex.
yelad echad).
The number two is special.
Shnayim (m.) and shtayim (f.) become shney (m.), and shtey (f.) when describing the number of some noun.
Mixed groups are always addressed as male, which is the case with all Hebrew.
Objects are either male or female (ex.
a book (sefer) is male).
{{Infobox Writer
| name        = George R. R. Martin
| image       = George R.R. Martin at Archipelacon.jpg
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| caption     = George R. R. Martin (2015)
| birth_name  = George Raymond Martin
| birth_place = Bayonne, New Jersey
| occupation  = Novelist
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| notableworks = A Song of Ice and Fire
George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), often called GRRM, is an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
He is best known for his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
HBO made the series into a TV series called Game of Thrones.
Books writtenDying of the Light (1977)Windhaven (1981, with Lisa Tuttle)Fevre Dream (1982)A Song of Ice and Fire series:A Game of Thrones (1996)A Clash of Kings (1998)A Storm of Swords (2000)A Feast for Crows (2005)A Dance with Dragons (2011)The Winds of Winter (not released)A Dream of Spring''  (not released)
People from Bayonne, New Jersey
Dying of the Light is a 1977 science fiction book that was written by George R. R. Martin.
It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1978, and was published by Simon & Schuster
Books by George R. R. Martin
Windhaven is a science-fiction and fantasy book that was written by George R.R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle.
The book is about events that take place in a fictional space colony called Windhaven.
The novel is a collection of short stories.
Simon & Schuster collected the stories and published them for the first time in 1981.
Bantam Spectra published it again in hardcover in 2001 and in mass market paperback in 2003.
Fevre Dream is a book written by George R. R. Martin in 1982.
The book was first published in the US by Poseidon Press in 1982.
It was notably reprinted by Orion Books in 2001 as volume 13 of their Fantasy Masterworks series.
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It is licensed under MPL, GPL, and LGPL.
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A Song of Ice and Fire is an award-winning series of fantasy novels written by George R. R. Martin.
He began writing the series in 1991.
Five books were released in the series and two were unfinished.
It was translated into over twenty languages and is a best-seller, with the fourth volume reaching the top of the New York Times bestseller lists when it came out.
A fictional language, Dothraki, was introduced for the series.
It was adapted into the Home Box Office television series Game of Thrones.
A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Storm of Swords (2000)
A Feast for Crows (2005)
A Dance with Dragons (2011)
The Winds of Winter (TBA)
A Dream of Spring (TBA)
(Great) Bernera (Gaelic: Bearnaraigh (Mòr)) is an island in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland.
Hercules and the Amazon Women is a 1994 television movie starring Kevin Sorbo and Michael Hurst.
This movie is loosely based on the labor of Hercules to get the Golden Girdle.
Here instead of getting the Golden Girdle, he faces the Amazon women who are plaguing the men in their area.
Hippolyte like in the Marvel comics and mythology falls in love with Hercules.
But unlike in the myth, Hippolyte befriends Hercules.
Three men are walking through the woods, they hear strange noises and catch glimpses of something moving in the undergrowth.
Suddenly they are attacked by unseen creatures.
Two men are killed, but one escapes and flees the woods.
Hercules strolls into a village after returning from one of his adventures, and is greeted by Iolaus.
It is established that Iolaus is getting married and that Hercules is the best man.
The two men set off for Alcmene's house.
While walking through the woods, they reminisce that it has been a long time since they last saw each other.
Iolaus tells Hercules about his bride-to-be, Ania.
They stumble upon a little girl crying alone near an altar.
She tells them that a monster killed her father while they were placing an offering to the goddess.
Hercules tries to comfort the girl and asks if he can help, but the girl transforms into a monster.
Hercules chops off its head, thinking it is now dead, Hercules and Iolaus begin walking away.
They hear a noise and turn around to see that the monster is not dead, but has now grown two new heads in the place where the previous one was.
The monster is a Hydra.
Hercules tells Iolaus to grab the torch from the altar, Hercules cuts off the heads and burns the Hydra, preventing it from growing new heads, thus killing it.
After the Hydra is destroyed a peacock feather remains in its place, Hercules tells Iolaus that Hera is responsible for the Hydra.
Hercules and Iolaus finally reach his mother's house, after a short chat with Alcmene, Iolaus invites them both for dinner, then leaves.
Later on that evening while the four are enjoying dinner, Ania glimpses a man outside the window and Hercules goes to investigate.
It is Pithus, the man who escaped the creatures at the beginning of the film.
He explains to Hercules about his village being attacked by the creatures and Hercules agrees to help.
Iolaus persuades Hercules to let him go along for one last adventure before he is married, Hercules reluctantly relents and says that he can come along.
The three men set off for the village.
When they arrive Hercules asks where all the women are, Pithus tells him that they were stolen by the creatures in the forest.
Hercules and Iolaus head off to find the beast and rescue the village's women.
In the forest they are ambushed by the beasts, they manage to stave off the attack for a time, but Iolaus discovers that the beasts are really women.
After he chases after one he is fatally injured in the fight and Hercules is captured and taken to the City of Amazons.
Hercules is then seen being taken captive by the women.
He has been stripped of his shirt and chained to a wooden sled assembled by the women that is attached to a horses saddle and being pulled along.
The women have also cleave gagged his mouth with a black leather strap.
He is surrounded by women on each side of him and led into a village full of women.
He is starred at by many of the women.
A few laugh and taunt him.
You can hear one of the women saying "keep him bound" and another saying "Men should be seen and not heard" in reference to him being gagged.
In vein Hercules muffles angry speech through the gag.
Women continue to laugh at him.
In the village, some women are being trained in combat and others are doing chores.
When he arrives at the end of the village, the leader of the Amazon army (Lysia) helps to release him from the sled.
She tells Hercules "If you're looking for men, you won't find any.
Not in the city of amazons.
You're the only one and I don't think you'll last very long."
Hercules is taken by the women to the Queen, Hippolyta.
She removes the gag from his mouth.
She tells him that she knows he is here to defeat them and that Hercules has been beaten by women.
Hercules tells her she is wrong.
Using a magic candle, the Hippolyta turns Hercules into a baby telling him she will show him what he is really like.
As Hercules reverts to infant form we are shown flashbacks to Hercules's youth and times when he has been told by people how to behave toward women.
Later he returns to adult state, realising that Hippolyta is right and that his attitude toward women is wrong, he tells her that he can change.
She says that he cannot change and that all men are the same.
Hippolyta goes to consult with Hera, she tells Hippolyta to lead an attack on the village
Hercules escapes from the Amazons and warns the men of the village of the forthcoming attack.
He prepares them for when the women arrive.
The women ride into the village and order the men to remove their clothes, telling them they are here for only one thing.
The men tell the women to sit and talk with them for a while.
Pithus's wife enters her home, and her son Franco asks if she really is his mother.
He tells her he often dreams about her but she has no face, she removes her mask and shows her face to Franco.
Hercules stands up to Hippolyta, who says she's not afraid of Hercules.
He kisses her, she tells him she's not afraid and kisses him back.
The two make love.
The following day the women are still with the men.
The Amazons return to their city and both men and women reminisce about the night before.
Hera tells Hippolyta that Hercules has tricked her and to attack the village again, this time killing all the men and boys.
Hippolyta refuses but Hera possesses her.
Hera, now in control of Hippolyta's action orders the women to attack the village.
Hercules stops Hippolyta and realises that she is possessed by Hera.
She rides off and Hercules goes after her.
As they fight Hercules tries to get through to Hippolyta, telling her that she is stronger than Hera.
Hercules best her and is about to deal the fatal blow, but cannot because it is Hippolyta's body and not really Hera.
Hercules leaves and Hera follows him, goading him.
He tells Hera that if he or Hippolyta have to die then he will give up his life for her, saying he could not live his life without her.
Upon hearing this Hera runs Hippolyta's body over the edge of a waterfall, killing her.
Hercules returns to the City of Amazons, and retrieves the candle Hippolyta used to send him back to his childhood.
Zeus appears and tells him the candle does not work in the way Hercules wants it to.
Hercules replies that Zeus could make it work that way.
Zeus tells Hercules that if he did that he would be in big trouble with Hera, but Hercules persuades him anyway.
Zeus blows out the candle and Hercules is taken back to the night of the dinner.
Ania see Pithus outside the window and Hercules goes to tell him that the village does not need the help of Hercules.
He explains that all the men need to do is treat the women with respect and things will sort themselves out.
Pithus returns to the village and when the women come the men sort out the problems that have been occurring.
Alcmene asks Hercules if there is a woman out there who will make him happy like Ania did for Iolaus, Hercules replies that he is sure there is.
The scene involving the fight with the Hydra is loosely based on the second labor of Hercules.
The rapproachment of the women and the men is apparently based on Herodotus' account of the formation of the Sauromatae people by the union of an Amazon offshoot with a group of Scythian men.
Kevin Sorbo as Hercules
Michael Hurst as Iolaus
Anthony Quinn as Zeus
Roma Downey as Hippolyta
Continuity and notes
Rose McIver who plays the human form of the Hydra in this film, went on to play Ilea, the daughter of Hercules in the later TV Movies and a few episodes of the series.
This episode marks the first time Iolaus is killed.
Although the time reversal undoes his death, he mentions it in the last TV Movie as though he remembers it happening.
Also Iolaus' wife is never mentioned again.
Hercules and the Amazon Women at Whoosh.org
Hercules and the Lost Kingdom is a 1994 television movie starring Kevin Sorbo and Renee O'Connor.
Hercules comes to the aid of a young woman who is seeking the lost city of Troy.
Eventually, Hercules leads her to a camp of refugees from the city, which has been taken over by Hera's Blue Monks.
Hercules helps the refugees take back the city.
Three men are running along a riverside.
One of them stops to take a drink from the river.
As he stoops down to quench his thirst a female figure made of water rises out of the river and pulls him under, drowning him.
The other two men run on.
While running, one man is hit by a boulder and killed.
The remaining man escapes.
Elsewhere a young woman is collecting water, when the ground begins to shake.
She flees back to her village to warn them that a giant is coming.
The giant follows the woman to the village and rips the roof of the tavern.
Hercules presents himself to the giant.
The giant challenges Hercules to a fight.
Hercules goes outside and beats the giant.
As the village celebrates the defeat the man from earlier arrives in the village.
He asks for Hercules' help.
He explains to Hercules that his people have been driven from their city, the lost city of Troy.
Zeus appears and Hercules asks him if he will help him.
He asks his father how to find Troy and he says that Hera made it vanish.
To find it, Hercules must find the one true compass which will point the way to Troy.
Hercules heads off to find the compass.
He finds a tribe of men preparing to sacrifice a young virgin to their water god.
Hercules saves her from being sacrificed, while unknowingly being watched by a mysterious robed figure.
The woman tells Hercules that her name is Deianeira.
Later in the evening as they camp for the night, Deianeira tells her a story that she is the daughter of a king.
She sees the dark figure and asks who he is and why she is being followed, but the figure does not answer.
Later Hercules and Deianeira arrive at the slave market looking for Queen Omphale, the last person to have possessed the compass.
In order to get to see the queen, Hercules sells himself as a slave, and the queen buys him.
After spending the night with the queen, Hercules gets the compass and he and Deianeira continue searching for Troy.
Deianeira gets attacked by some men but the figure in the dark robe saves her and tells her to follow her destiny.
Hercules and Deianeira go to Troy.
They arrive at the ocean and the figure standing on the cliffs summons a sea serpent to do Hera's bidding.
It swallows Hercules and Deianeira.
Hercules kills the monster from inside and they are washed up on the shore.
Deianeira sees Troy in the distance and tells Hercules that she now remembers and this is where she is from.
Deianeira and Hercules get caught in a trap and taken to the king.
He and his daughter are reunited.
He tells her that the Cult of the Blue Priests have taken over the city and the people have taken refuge in the woods.
He tells Deianeira to rule them well, and then dies.
Hercules tutors the people of Troy and prepares them to battle to take back Troy.
Deianeira realises that the people can not beat the Cult of the Blue Priests and goes looking for the Blue Priest.
The people notice that Deianeira is missing and Hercules and the people use an underground tunnel to get into the city.
As the people fight the cult members Hercules goes looking for Deianeira.
He finds her about to be sacrificed to Hera and saves her.
The Blue Priest and Hercules fight and Hercules cuts off the priest's head.
A huge storm approaches, and Zeus tells Hercules that Hera is coming for Deianeira.
Hercules saves her and Hera takes Hercules instead.
As Deianeira is crowned Queen of Troy we see Hercules thrown down from out of the sky.
A man approaches him asking him for help.
Hercules agrees and the two men walk off to the next adventure.
Series continuity and notes
Waylin (Robert Trebor) was originally intended to become a recurring character in the television series, but the producers felt that the character runs its course in the movie and had limited potential after, so the character of money-making Salmoneus was created for Trebor instead.
This is Renee O'Connor's first appearance in the shared Hercules-Xena universe.
Elizabeth Hawthorne, who played Queen Omphale, went on to play Hercules' mother in the TV series.
Nathaniel Lees went on to have numerous different roles in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.
Renee O'Connor as Deianeira
Hercules and the Lost Kingdom at Whoosh.org
Treasure Island is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson.
It was published in 1883.
It is about pirates and a treasure hunt on a tropical isle.
Famous characters include Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, and Ben Gunn.
The story has been made into many movies.
The story in the movie is often different to the story in the book.
Treasure Island (1934 movie), 1934 movie starring Jackie Cooper and Wallace Beery
Treasure Island (1950 movie), 1950 Disney movie starring Bobby Driscoll and Robert Newton
Animal Treasure Island (1971 Japanese animated movie) (Dobutsu Takarajima), a collaboration between Hiroshi Ikeda and Hayao Miyazaki at Toei Doga
Treasure Island (1972 movie), 1972 movie starring Orson Welles
Treasure Island (1972 animated movie), a 1972 movie released by Filmation
Return to Treasure Island, 1986 Disney mini-series starring Brian Blessed
Treasure Island (1988 animated movie), 1988 Soviet animated movie released by Kievnauchfilm
Treasure Island (1990 movie), 1990 movie starring Christian Bale and Charlton Heston
Treasure Island (1993 movie) (只要為你活一天), 1993 Taiwanese film
Muppet Treasure Island, 1996 movie rendition of Stevenson's novel starring The Muppets and Tim Curry
Treasure Island (1999 movie), 1999 movie starring Kevin Zeger and Jack Palance
Cordingly, David (1995).
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates.
ISBN 0-679-42560-8
Letley, Emma, ed. (
Treasure Island (Oxford World's Classics).
ISBN 0-19-283380-4
Pietsch, Roland (2010).
The Real Jim Hawkins: Ships' Boys in the Georgian Navy.
ISBN 978-1-84832-036-9
Reed, Thomas L. (2006).
The Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Victorian Alcohol Debate.
ISBN 0-7864-2648-9
Watson, Harold (1969).
Coasts of Treasure Island;: A study of the backgrounds and sources for Robert Louis Stevenson's romance of the sea.
ISBN 0-8111-0282-3
Hercules and the Circle of Fire is a made for television movie.
It was the third of five pre-series movies, so it may be considered part of the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
When all the earth's fire begins to go out, Hercules and Deianeira must go in search for fire to stop the world from cold.
Hercules is walking through a snowy mountain top where he finds a woman in the cold, and goes to help her.
He sees Zeus in a cave and a rock closes over the entrance.
Hercules turns around and the woman calls out to him and freezes and explodes.
Hercules wakes from a dream.
He turns over and goes back to sleep.
As he sleeps his camp-fire goes out.
Next day Hercules and young man are walking through a cave with dead bodies strewn all over.
The man tells Hercules that they are all men from his village and that the witch who guards the Fountain of Youth killed them for their youth and strength.
Later Hercules arrives at Chiron's house.
Hercules gives him the water and he drinks it.
The wound heals, but after a few seconds the wound worsens.
Hercules tells him he will find a cure for his wound.
Meanwhile, all over the village fires are being inexplicably extinguished.
Hercules and Chiron are talking by the fire side and the fire goes out.
Hercules realizes that something is amiss.
Zeus replies that he does, but he loves Hercules more.
Hercules tells Zeus he loves him too.
Zeus accepts what Hercules must do, and lets him go.
Hercules goes through the fire and retrieves the Torch.
He throws it and it lands in Prometheus's home, waking him.
Fire begins to return.
As Hercules lays dying in the circle, Zeus begs Hera not to harm Hercules or he will haunt her for eternity.
Hercules takes the torch to Chiron's house and asks him to step inside a circle of straw.
Chiron stands in the centre of the circle and Hercules lights the straw with the torch.
Chiron drops to his knees and cries out.
As the flames die out Chiron exclaims that his wound is healed.
The flames had burned away his immortality and healed the wound.
This movie is loosely based on the myth of Prometheus.
The basic plot concept of Prometheus being captured, is similar to the first season Xena: Warrior Princess episode Prometheus, although in that episode mankind is robbed of the gift of healing not fire.
Tawny Kitaen as Deianeira
1 nomination in 1995 in the category Best Single Genre Television Presentation, in the Saturn Awards.
Hercules and the Circle of Fire at Whoosh.org
Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 drama movie directed by Stanley Kubrick.
It stars Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and is set in New York City.
1999 mystery movies
1990s thriller movies
Parker was born on a farm in Morgan County, Indiana.
She got a teaching certificate at Franklin College, and was a teacher for a few years until she married Earl Parker, who was her next door neighbor.
He died on February 23, 1939.
They had two sons, Clifford and Earl Jr.,, both of whom died before her.
After Earl's death, Parker lived by herself on a farm on Blueridge Road.
She stayed there until she was 100, when she moved in to live with one of her sons.
On a winter night, she was alone while her son and his wife went to a basketball game.
When they came back, they found her in the back yard, in poor health, in the snow, and could only be seen as she had been wearing a red sweater that she liked a lot.
Her family feared that she would die, but her health got much better.
After that, the family thought that she needed to move to a nursing home.
Parker lived at Heritage House Convalescent Center, a retirement home in Shelbyville, Indiana.
She remained in good health and was still able to walk.
In April 2007, at age 114, she met with 113-year-old Bertha Fry, who was at the time the second-oldest person living in Indiana and the fifth-oldest living person.
This set the highest total age for a meeting of two people.
Parker reached the age of 115 on April 20, 2008.
There were two birthday parties held, the first of which was public, and the second private.
The public one was celebrated on April 18, 2008, and the private on April 20.
At both parties, one hundred fifteen balloons of many colors floated in the air, because she liked to see balloons in the air.
This was Parker's final year, as she lived until November 26 of that year at age 115 years, 220 days.
(April 21, 2006)
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(August 17, 2007)
(August 27, 2007)
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American supercentenarians
Literature, movie, and television
Treasure Island (show), 1997-present, a New Zealand, Irish, and Australian reality television programme
Treasure Island (Ontario), a small island on South Tea Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario
Treasure Island (Zhenbao Island)
Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), the second-largest Cuban island, at various times named La Evangelista, Isla de Cotorras ("Isle of Parrots") and Isla de Tesoros ("Treasure Island")
Treasure Island, Fiji, a coral island and resort that is part of the Mamanuca Islands
Treasure Island, Singapore
Treasury Islands, a small group of islands a few kilometers to the south of Bougainville and 24 kilometers from the Shortland Islands
Treasure Island, Tonga, also known as Eua'iki, a motu and resort in the Tongan Vava'u archipelago
"Treasure Island", corporate slang for the United Kingdom, as many multinational companies have a higher profit margin on the products they ship there
Treasure Island (California), an island in San Francisco Bay
Treasure Island, Florida, a city
Treasure Island (Tennessee), an island in Lake McKellar south of Memphis, Tennessee
Reach Island, or Treasure Island, an island in the state of Washington
Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, formerly Treasure Island Resort
Treasure Island Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada
Treasure Island Resort and Casino outside Red Wing, Minnesota
Treasure Island Scout Reservation, a Boy Scout camp in the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Treasure Island (record), a 1974 record by jazz pianist Keith Jarrett
Treasure Island (store), a defunct discount store owned by J. C. Penney
Treasure Island (video game), a game made for computers such as the Commodore Plus/4 and the Commodore 64 around 1984/1985
Treasure Island Media, a San Francisco-based gay pornography studio
Destination Treasure Island, an adventure game
39/Smooth was released as the first album by Green Day in 1990 on Lookout!
Records on vinyl and cassette.
"At the Library" – 2:28
"Don't Leave Me" – 2:39
"I Was There" – 3:36
"Disappearing Boy" – 2:52
"Green Day" – 3:29
"Going to Pasalacqua" – 3:30
"16" – 3:24
"Road to Acceptance" – 3:35
"Rest" – 3:05
"The Judge's Daughter" – 2:34
Billie Joe Armstrong - Guitar, vocals
Mike Dirnt - Bass, backing vocals
Al Sobrante - Drums
39/Smooth LP  on greendaydiscography.com
Slappy is the second EP by Green Day, and was released on Lookout!
Records in the summer of 1990 on seven-inch vinyl
"Paper Lanterns" – 2:23
"Why Do You Want Him?" –
"409 in Your Coffeemaker" – 2:51
"Knowledge" (Tim Armstrong/Freeman/Michaels/Mello) – 2:18
Slappy EP  on greendaydiscography.com
Savate, also known as boxe française (French boxing) or French kickboxing, is a French martial art - a kind of boxe pieds-poings - which use the hands and the feet as weapons and includes elements of Western boxing, techniques of grappling and techniques of leg (only with the feet: neither knee, nor shin).
The persons who perform savate are called savateurs or "tireurs" in case of the men, and savateuses in case of the women.
Savate carry its name from the French word for "oldest shoe" (heavy shoes that were used to use during the combats) and is now a combination of the French techniques of fighting from beginning of the century XIX.
In that age, savate was a kind of fighting which was common in Paris and in the North of France.
In the South, especially in the port of Marseilles, the seamen had developed other style known as jeu marseillais ("the game of Marseilles"), that has obtained a new name chausson ("slipper", that was the shoes that the seamen used).
Differently, in that age in England (the place of birth of boxing and the rules of Queensberry), people treated kicking as non-fair in sport or as something what only the cowards used more.
The two persons who have been recorded in the history of changing of street combat into modern savate are Michel Casseux (also known as "le Pisseux") (1794-1869), and Charles Lecour (1808-1894).
Casseux opened in 1825 the first building in order to perform and to help in the development of a version of chausson and savate with rules (refusing to allow the strikes with the head, attacks with the fingers to the eyes, etc.).
Anyhow, such sport still have been limited by its opinion of street combat.
A student of Casseux, Charles Lecour had been exposed to the English art of boxing in the year 1830 and he had felt himself misfit, because he used his hands in order to hit the feet of the opponent and to drive them away in this way, instead of punching as in boxing.
By that reason he trained himself in boxing during two years and in 1832 he combined boxing with chausson and savate in order to create such sport of savate boxe française as we know it today.
Probably the more outstanding recognition as soon as to the esteem of savate came in 1924 when had been included as sport of exhibition in the Olympic Games of Paris.
In spite of its roots, savate is a sport relatively safe in order to learn.
According to USA Savate , savate is in the lower places of injuries when is compared with the soccer, football, hockey, gymnastics, basketball, baseball and speed skating.
Savate at Present
At present, savate is performed in all the world by interested people: from Australia to United States and from Finlandia to the United Kingdom.
Many lands, as is case of United States has national federations very interested for helping in the development of this sport.
The modern savate gives three levels of competition: "assault", "precombat" and "combat".
In assault, the competitors need to be concentrated on the technique during they are trying make contact; refrees punish with penatlties the usage of excessive force.
Precombat permits fighting without thoughtlessness in the force always and when the fighters wear protection as helmets and shin protectors.
Combat, the level more intensified, is similar to the precombat but the usage objects of protection is prohibited (except in case of the genital protectors and the protectors of the teeth).
Many martial arts have systems of judgment of level of the persons who perform them, as the colour of the belts in the karate.
In the same way, savate uses different colours in the gloves in order to show the level of a fighter; although, on the contrary that disciplines as the judo or the capoeira, where the fighters obtain new belts in each promotion, every fighter can use the same pair of gloves in several promotions (for that the level is not corresponding directamente with the colour of the gloves that are used but with that is established in the licence).
The beginners begin without colour and the different exams of promotion permit them to be promoted to blue, green, red, white and yellow in that order.
The competition is restricted for the red gloves and higher; each federation has the possibility to establish the conditions as little as possible for teaching this sport.
In France, it is necessary to have the yellow glove in order to being able to gain the degree of instructor (moniteur) and the silver glove in his technical category in order to obtain the title of teacher (professeur).
In other lands as Mexico, all technical degrees from the green require an evaluation on subjects of helping in teaching in order to being able to increase the development of that art.
Writings on the subject
Description de la Savate à partir de ses formes techniques de base par Amorous (Manuel d'Ecucation Physique Tome 1, page 414).
Défense et illustration de la boxe française.
Savate, canne, chausson, Bernard Plasait, 1972, Paris, Sedirep
L'art de la savate, Michel Casseux.
Théorique et pratique de la boxe française, Joseph Charlemont, 1878.
La Boxe Française, historique et biographique, souvenirs, notes, impressions, anecdotes, Joseph Charlemont, 1899.
Techniques  of Savate
"Sweet Children" – 1:41
"Best Thing in Town" – 2:03
"Strangeland" – 2:08
"My Generation" (Pete Townshend) – 2:19
Sweet Children EP  on greendaydiscography.com
"I Was There" (John Kiffmeyer) – 3:36
"Going to Pasalacqua" – 3:31
"Road to Acceptance" – 3:36
"Rest" – 3:06
"The Judge's Daughter" – 2:35
"Paper Lanterns" – 2:25
"409 in Your Coffeemaker" – 2:54
"Knowledge" (Jesse Michaels, Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello) – 2:20
"1,000 Hours" – 2:26
"Dry Ice" – 3:45
"Only of You" – 2:46
"The One I Want" – 3:01
"I Want to Be Alone" – 3:09
Juan Diego Flórez (born January 13, 1973 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor.
He is famous for the roles he sings in bel canto operas.
Juan Diego Flórez was born in Lima, Peru on January 13, 1973.
His father, Rubén Flórez, was a guitarist and singer of Peruvian popular music.
His mother worked in a pub where music was performed live.
When a musician was ill Juan would sing instead.
It was good experience for him.
He entered the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Lima at the age of 17.
He was intending to have a career in popular music.
His teacher Andrés Santa María found that he had a superb voice for classical music.
He became a member of the Coro Nacional of Peru and sang as a soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass and Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
He was given a scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia where he studied from 1993 to 1996 and began singing in student opera productions.
He sang roles in operas by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.
During this period, he also studied with Marilyn Horne at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.
In 1994 the Peruvian tenor, Ernesto Palacio invited him to Italy to work on a recording of Vicente Martín y Soler's opera Il Tutore Burlato.
Palacio became Flórez's teacher and helped him an enormous amount in his career.
1996 - present
Flórez's first big breakthrough came in 1996, at the Rossini Festival in the Italian city of Pesaro, Rossini's birthplace.
At the age of 23, he was asked to sing the leading tenor role in Matilde di Shabran when Bruce Ford became ill.
He first sang at La Scala in the same year as the Chevalier danois in Gluck's Armide.
His Covent Garden debut followed in 1997 where he sang the role of Count Potoski in the world premiere of Donizetti's Elisabetta.
Debuts followed at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1999 as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia and at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2002, again as Count Almaviva.
On February 20 2007, the opening night of Donizetti's La Fille du régiment at La Scala, Flórez broke the theater's 74-year-old tradition of not having any encores when he repeated the aria "Ah!
mes amis" with its nine high C's after the audience gave him an enormous ovation.
Flórez sing in concerts in Europe, North America, and South America.
Amongst the many places in which he has given concerts and recitals are the Wigmore Hall in London, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Teatro Segura in Lima, and the Mozarteum in Salzburg.
As a change from the usual music he sings, he sang "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the Broadway musical Carousel at the Berlin Live 8 concert in 2005.
He was signed by Decca in 2001 and since then made 5 CDs for them.
Nearly all his operatic roles have been broadcast on radio or television.
Flórez was married to German-born Julia Trappe in a private civil ceremony on April 23, 2007 in Vienna.
They held a religious ceremony at the Basilica Cathedral in Lima on April 5, 2008.
Some of Peru's most famous people went, including President Alan García and author Mario Vargas-Llosa.
Awards and distinctions
Juan Diego Flórez has won many awards and distinction, including Peru's highest honour: the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú.
He has even appeared on a Peruvian stamp.
The Lookouts were an American punk rock band from 1985 to 1990.
The members were Lawrence Livermore (more commonly known as Larry Livermore) on guitar and vocals, Kain Kong on bass and vocals and Tré Cool on drums and vocals.
The band is most famous for being Tré Cool's first band before joining Green Day.
The Lookouts page on Lookout!
Records website
Kerplunk (also known as Kerplunk!)
is the second full-length album by punk rock band Green Day.
It was released on January 17, 1992 by Lookout!
Billie Joe Armstrong – vocals, guitar, drums on "Dominated Love Slave"
Mike Dirnt – bass, backing vocals
Tré Cool – drums, vocals and guitar on "Dominated Love Slave"
John Kiffmeyer, a.k.a.
Al Sobrante – drums on "Sweet Children", "Best Thing in Town", "Strangeland" and "My Generation"
Kerplunk LP  on greendaydiscography.com
Cerium is a chemical element with an atomic number of 58.
This means that the nucleus of cerium has 58 protons in it.
The atomic mass of cerium is 140.12.
The chemical symbol of cerium is Ce and it is a member of the lanthanide group.
Cerium is a grey, shiny or lustrous metal.
At room temperature cerium is a solid.
It melts and becomes a liquid at 798oC and boils and becomes a gas at 3424oC. It burns in air to form a compound with one cerium atom and two oxygen atoms.
0.0046% of the Earth's crust is cerium which means that it is quite common - more common than Tin and Lead and nearly as common as zinc
Cerium was first found in Sweden in 1803 by Berzelius and Hisinger and Klaproth in Germany.
Because it is very reactive, it was not purified until 1875 in Washington DC.
Cerium was named after the asteroid or minor planet Ceres which was first seen two years earlier in 1801.
Cerium is not often used as a metal since it quickly reacts with the air and tarnishes.
Its most common use is as the 'flint' in a lighter, because it easily produces a spark when it is struck with another metal.
Cerium is sometimes used in alloys because it often makes the alloy more heat resistant.
Cerium is also used in special glass, ceramics and self-cleaning ovens.
Cerium reacts in two ways to produce cerous compounds or salts and ceric compounds.
Cerous salts have an oxidation number of 3 and ceric salts have an oxidation of 4.
Cerium has many isotopes.
Four of them are found in nature instead of having to be made,
Cerium-136 which has 58 protons and 78 neutrons in its nucleus and is radioactive
Cerium-138 which has 58 protons and 80 neutrons and is stable
Cerium-140 which has 58 protons and 82 neutrons and is stable
Cerium-142 which has 58 protons and 84 neutrons and is radioactive.
Cerium-140 (88.5% of all cerium) and Ce-142 (11.1%) are the most common.
The average of the weights of each isotope is what give cerium its atomic mass of 140.12.
The hallux, also called the big toe, is the toe innermost (closest to the middle of the body) of the foot.
It is usually the biggest toe in the body.
In humans, the hallux is longer than the toes next to it; this is inherited.
Humans are unusual amongst hominids in walking upright, and their feet are adapted to their locomotion.
In other animals the foot is organised differently.
Mammals usually move on four legs with paws.
In some birds, the hallux is pointed backwards: it helps to grip.
Anything or any person that comes from  The Netherlands
Dutch Republic, a former republic in Europe that came before The Netherlands
Dutch language – The language spoken in The Netherlands and Belgium
Dutch people – The people from The Netherlands
Lana Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Lilly Wachowski (born December 29, 1967), known together professionally as the Wachowskis and formerly as the Wachowski Brothers, are Polish American movie directors, writers and transgender women, most famous for creating The Matrix series.
Their other projects include live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix television series Sense-8.
Lana Wachowski had a sex change operation in 2008 and changed her name from Larry Wachowksi.
Lilly changed her name from Andrew in 2016.
Assassins (1995) (story, screenplay credits)
Bound (1996) (written and directed, executive producers)
The Matrix (1999) (written and directed, executive producers)
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (written and directed, executive producers)
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (written and directed, executive producers)
The Animatrix (2003) (producers, wrote four of the nine animated shorts)
V for Vendetta (2006) (produced and written, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd)
The Invasion (2007) (rewritten various parts and added a twist ending, uncredited)
Speed Racer (2008) (produced, written and directed, based on the Speed Racer anime)
Ninja Assassin (2009) (producers)
Cloud Atlas (2012) (written and directed, executive producers)
Jupiter Ascending (2015) (written and directed, executive producers)
Sense8 (2015) (directed)
1960s births
V for Vendetta is a ten-issue graphic comic book series from DC Comics and Vertigo, written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd.
It is set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s, which has become a totalitarian fascist dictatorship.
It was published from 1982 to 1988.
In 2005, it was made into a movie with the same name.
Unlike in the comic book, the movie takes place in 2020.
There are also a few differences from the comic book.
V for Vendetta official site  at DC Comics
V for Vendetta: Comic vs. Film at IGN
An Annotation of Literary, Historic and Artistic References in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel, V For Vendetta  by Madelyn Bourdeaux
The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit organization that was created to support and give leadership for the open source Mozilla project.
The organization sets the policies that govern development, operate important things that keep Mozilla working and control trademarks and other intellectual property.
It owns a taxable for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation, which employs several Mozilla developers and sets releases of the Mozilla Firefox.
The Mozilla Foundation is based in Mountain View, California, USA.
The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet".
Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China are non-profit organizations whose mission is to help promote and deploy Mozilla products and projects.
On February 23, 1998, Netscape created the Mozilla Organization to help the development of the Mozilla Application Suite.
It made-up of mostly Netscape employees but was not part of Netscape.
When America Online (AOL) (Netscape's owner) stopped its involvement with the Mozilla Organization by a lot, the Mozilla Foundation was created on July 15, 2003 to make sure Mozilla could survive without Netscape.
AOL helped during the start of the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, moving hardware and intellectual property to the organization and employing a three-person team for the first three months to help with the move.
AOL promised to donate $2 million to the foundation over two years.
Mitchell Baker (Chair)
Brian Behlendorf
Joichi Ito
Bob Lisbonne
Cathy Davidson
Ronaldo Lemos
Originally Christopher Blizzard had a seat on the board but he moved to the Mozilla Corporation Board of Directors when it was established; Joichi Ito joined the Mozilla Foundation board at that time.
Bob Lisbonne and Carl Malamud were elected to the board in October 2006.
Mark Surman — Executive Director
Zak Greant
Mozilla Firefox — Mozilla's web browser
Mozilla Thunderbird — Mozilla's e-mail client
About the Mozilla Foundation
2005 presentation about the Mozilla Foundation
Press release about the creation of the Mozilla Foundation
Details about the reorganization caused by the formation of the Mozilla Corporation
mozilla.org Staff Members and Meeting Minutes
The 1812 Overture (French: Ouverture solennelle "L'Année 1812"; Russian: Торжественная увертюра 1812 года, Toržestvennaja uvertjura 1812 goda) (Op.
49) is an orchestral work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
It commemorates Russia's 1812 defense against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of Borodino, during the French invasion of Russia.
The Overture's first public performance occurred on 20 August 1882 (NS; the OS date was 8 August).
The venue was the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow.
The overture is best known for its climactic volley of cannon fire and ringing chimes.
Woodwinds
1 Piccolo
2 Flutes
2 Oboes
1 English Horn
2 Clarinets in B-flat
2 Bassoons
4 Horns in F
2 Cornets in B-flat
2 Trumpets in E-flat
3 Trombones
1 Tuba
Bass Drum
Carillon (sometimes substituted with tubular bells or recordings of carillons, or even church bells)
Brass Band
Violins I, II
Violoncellos
Double basses
Field Cannons
Musical structure
Sixteen cannon shots are written into the score of the Overture.
The Overture begins with the plaintive Russian Orthodox Troparion of the Holy Cross ("God Preserve Thy People") played by eight cellos and four violas.
The piece moves through a mixture of pastoral and militant themes.
The Overture includes the Russian folk dance "At the Gate, at my Gate."
At the turning point of the invasion – the Battle of Borodino – the score calls for five Russian cannon shots.
A descending string passage represents the following retreat of the French forces, followed by victory bells and a triumphant repetition of God Preserve Thy People as Moscow burns to deny winter quarters to the French.
A musical chase scene appears.
Out of it, the anthem "God Save the Tsar!"
appears.
The overture uses counterpoint to reinforce the appearance of the leitmotif that represents the Russian forces throughout the song.
Although God Save The Tsar!
was the Russian National Anthem in Tchaikovsky's time.
It was not the anthem in 1812.
There was no official Russian anthem until 1815.
The opening segment, "God Preserve Thy People" is sung a cappella by a choir.
A children's or women's choir added to the flute and cor anglais duet rendition of "At the Gate".
The orchestra and chorus unite in the climax with a triumphant version of "God Preserve Thy People" and "God Save the Tsar".
Recording History
Antal Doráti's 1954 Mercury Records recording with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, partially recorded at West Point, and using the Yale Memorial Carillon in New Haven, Connecticut, uses a Napoleonic French single muzzleloading cannon shot on December 4, 1954 dubbed in 16 times as written.
On the first edition of the recording, one side played the Overture and the other side played a narrative by Deems Taylor about how the cannon and bell effects were accomplished. (
Later editions placed the commentary after the performance on side 1 and the Capriccio Italien on side 2.)
A stereophonic album version was recorded on 4 December 1958, using the bells of the L.S. Rockefeller Carillon, at Riverside Church.
On this Mercury Living Presence Stereo recording, the spoken commentary was also given by Deems Taylor and the 1812 was coupled with Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien.
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert Von Karajan, and the Don Cossacks Choir recorded the piece in 1967.
In 1971, CBS released a recording with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, also featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Valley Forge Military Academy band and real artillery shots.
Neeme Järvi's recording with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Artillery Division, Gothenburg Symphony Brass Band, Churchbells of Gothenburg & Gothenburg Symphony Chorus, was recorded on December 4, 1991, with his Marche Slave, Alexander Borodin’s In the Steppes of Central Asia and Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture and Capriccio Espagnol.
The first digital recording of the 1812 Overture is performed by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1975.
The last digital recording is by Erich Kunzel, the Cincinnati Pops, and the Kiev Symphony Chorus in 2001.
In 1990, during a worldwide celebration of the 150th anniversary of Tchaikovsky's birth, the Overture was recorded in the city of his youth by the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra, also known as the All-Union Radio and Television Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, using 16 muzzleloading cannons fired live as written in the 1880 score.
In June 2009, the record soon became a most popular complete orchestral record with fireworks at the finale.
Article from 2003 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on how “1812” has become a piece of patriotic Americana
Russian national anthem “God Save the Tsar” in Tchaikovsky’s music  — contains several audio recordings of the 1812 Overture.