the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
It would be monitored by an independent authority.
.geo - Generic geographical locations.
.mail - A domain for e-mail networks, proposed to facilitate fighting e-mail spam.
.med - Medical hospitals.
.eco - Environmental causes
.post - Postal organizations.
.xxx - Adult entertainment.
ICANN Proposed Top-Level Domain Registry Service
Web Campaigns Boost, Eurolang - ICANN discussed the proposed top-level domains at a conference on 3 July 2008
ICANN (, eye-can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
ICANN is a non-profit corporation that was made on September 18, 1998.
It oversees Internet-related tasks that used to be done by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for the U.S. government.
ICANN is located in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.
ICANN manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses.
To date, much of its work is about making new generic top-level domains.
ICANN website
The Lone Gunmen was a short-lived television show based on the show The X-Files.
It focused on the three geeks that occasionally helped Agents Mulder and Scully.
Their names were John Byers, played by Bruce Harwood, Ringo Langly, played by Dean Haglund, and Melvin Frohike, played by Tom Braidwood (who used to work behind the scenes on The X-Files until he was talked into taking the part of Frohike).
A Travelcard is a  ticket used for most transport in London, including buses and the underground.
The ticket is issued by Transport for London and National Rail and can be used on the services of either.
London Transport's bus and Underground services.
This was a problem as it led to delays while purchasing the next ticket.
One ticket for all transport in London was one of the key promises made in 1981 by the newly-elected Labour Greater London Council, headed by council leader Ken Livingstone.
The policy, with the slogan "Just The Ticket", meant that only one ticket was needed for London Transport bus and Underground services.
They also reduced the price of transport.
The price cut was then ruled illegal, but the one pricing scheme was mostly a success and was extended during the 1980s and 1990s as new transport routes were opened in London.
By 1985, there were two travelcards: the Travelcard itself, which covered only London Buses and the Underground, and the Capitalcard, which covered most bus, Underground and local British Rail (BR) services.
The Travelcard replaced the original Capitalcard, while including its greater availability, around 1989.
The original "zonal" system was mainly in Greater London.
The zone areas used both letters and numbers for the outermost zones such that bus availability ignored the letter while BR and Underground availability depended also upon the letter(s) - e.g. a Travelcard or Capitalcard valid in zone 3a (but not 3b or 3c) was valid on buses in zones 3a, 3b and 3c but only in zone 3a when used on the railway services.
Transport modes
London Buses, including some services that terminate outside of Greater London
National Rail except for the Heathrow Express
Infrastructure: One TLD, the .arpa
Countries: Usually they are codes with two letters according to ISO 3166.
Sponsored: They are promoted by collectives, organizations, the US government or territories with its own language and culture.
Generic: They are .com, .net, .org and .info.
Generic restricted: .edu, .gov, .mil
Country code top-level domain (includes a list)
Its Spanish name, Loma de Cabrera, means in English Hill of Cabrera or Cabrera's Hill.
The city and most of the municipality is among hills and its old name was Loma de David (David's Hill) but it was named after José Cabrera, one of the leaders of the Restoration War against Spain and who fought in this region.
The municipality is surrounded by municipalities of the Dajabón province: Dajabón to the north, Rstauración to the south, and El Pino and Partido to the east.
To the west, Loma de Cabrera borders with Haiti.
The city had, in , a total population of 10,893: 5,647 men and 5,246 women.
Loma de Cabrera has a total area of , about  of the total area of the province of Dajabón .
The city is an elevation of , and at  to the south of the city of Dajabón, the capital of the province.
Most of the municipality is among mountains because it is located in the northern side of the Cordillera Central ("Central mountain chain").
The highest mountains are to the south of the city; to the north, there are only low hills with small valleys.
To the north of the city there is a hill with pines that can be seen from the city because it is alone; it is the Cerro Chacuey (in English, Chacuey Hill).
The most important river of the municipality (and of the province) is the Dajabón River, also called Masacre River; it flows across the municipality from south to north.
There are other rivers but they are very small and tributaries of the Dajabón.
Enfield Town railway station is the most central of many stations in Enfield, in northeast London.
It is the endpoint of a branch line from Liverpool Street, one of the Lea Valley Lines.
The station is in Travelcard Zone 5.
Trains on the Hertford Loop Linego through Enfield.
Enfield Chase railway station is on the opposite side of the town centre.
Enfield Chase railway station
London Travelcard zone 5
1849 establishments in England
Edmonton Green railway station is in the London Borough of Enfield in north east London, and is in Travelcard Zone 4.
It is on the Seven Sisters branch of the Lea Valley Lines.
The station is served by London Overground during off peak and peak times and Abellio Greater Anglia during peak times.
It is in the centre of Edmonton, London.
The station was opened as Edmonton Green on July 22, 1872 and was renamed to Lower Edmonton on July 1, 1883.
It reverted to its original name in 1992 to better reflect the name of the area which it serves.
It is located close to Edmonton Green shopping centre.
It is near the former site of Lower Edmonton (low level) railway station.
Railway stations opened in 1872
1872 establishments in England
The avoirdupois system is a system for measuring weight.
It is based on a pound of 16 ounces or 7,000 grains (453.59 grams).
It is the system used in the United States.
It is still used by many people in Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland.
Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 American comedy movie starring Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, and Jayma Mays.
It was released on January 16, 2009, in the United States by Columbia Pictures.
Kevin James as Paul Blart
Keir O'Donnell as Veck Sims
Jayma Mays as Amy
Raini Rodriguez as Maya Blart
Shirley Knight as Mrs. Blart
Stephen Rannazzisi as Stuart
Peter Gerety as Chief Brooks
Bobby Cannavale as Commander Kent
Adam Ferrara as Sergeant Howard
Adhir Kalyan as Pahud
Erick Avari as Vijay
Jamal Mixon as Leon
Allen Covert as Jerky Security Guy
Bas Rutten as Drill Instructor
Jason Ellis as Prancer
Mike Escamilla as Vixen
Mike Vallely as Rudolph
The movie received negative reviews from critics, but was met with critical acclaim from critics, namely movie-buff Emre Kahraman, who said of the movie "HOW U DO DIS," and "this is the most highly respected Italian film of ALL TIME."
Rotten Tomatoes said that 29% of critics gave positive reviews, based on 81 reviews.
Another website, Metacritic, gave the movie a 41/100 approval rating, based on 21 reviews from critics.
2009 comedy movies
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch is a direct-to-video animated sequel to the 2002 Walt Disney Pictures movie Lilo & Stitch and taking place before Stitch!
The Movie and other additions to the franchise.
It was originally planned for a theatrical release (like The Jungle Book 2), but was released to DVD and VHS on August 30, 2005.
Stitch has a glitch because his molecules were never fully charged (this is different than a deleted opening, "Stitch's trial", which was seen on the DVD release of Lilo & Stitch).
Dakota Fanning as Lilo
Tia Carrere as Nani
David Ogden Stiers as Jumba
Jason Scott Lee as David the Lifeguard
Emily Osment as Additional Voices
Jennifer Hale as Additional voices
Paul Vogt as Gator Guard and Various Voices
| name = Disney's Lilo & Stitch Island Favorites Featuring Songs from Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
| type = Soundtrack
| border = yes
| artist = Various artists
| released = August 30, 2005
| recorded = 2004-2005
| genre = Rock, country rock, pop
| label = Walt Disney
| Chronology  = Lilo & Stitch music
| prev_title = Lilo & Stitch(2002)
& Stitch 2: Island Favorites(2005)
| next_title = Lilo & Stitch Hawaiian Album(2006)
}}Lilo & Stitch 2: Island Favorites''''' is the soundtrack of the movie.
Released on August 30, 2005, by Walt Disney Records, it is the sequel to the original movie's soundtrack.
Lilo & Stitch 2 at the Big Cartoon DataBase
Lilo & Stitch 2's official Disney animated films website
Ultimate Disney DVD Review
2000s family movies
The Movie is a direct-to-video animated spin-off of Lilo & Stitch, released on August 26, 2003.
Although it follows the original movie, it is often considered more of a pilot for the spinoff series Lilo & Stitch: The Series.
The movie introduces Jumba's 625 experiments.
Without the credits, the movie is only 57 minutes long.
Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley are all living with Lilo and Nani.
But no one knows that Jumba had secretly deactivated all 625 of his other experiments and brought them with him.
The ex-captain Gantu, hired by Jumba's former partner, Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, goes to find them and captures Jumba to force him into telling where they are.
Now, Lilo and Stitch have to save Stitch's ohana from being used for chaos.
Two experiments are activated in this movie: 221, "Sparky", with the ability to cause big electric surges, and 625 who has all the abilities of Stitch but is lazier.
At least he makes good sandwiches!
The movie's original title was going to be Lilo & Stitch: A New Ohana.
At some time, there was a decision to only have Stitch's name in the names of both the movie and the following series, which was planned to be called Stitch!
The Series.
Eventually, this was changed, making this movie and the series have different names.
The Stitch!
name, with the exclamation point, was later used as the name of an anime series five years after this movie's release.
Daveigh Chase: Lilo
Chris Sanders: Stitch
Tia Carrere: Nani
David Ogden Stiers: Dr. Jumba Jookiba
Kevin McDonald: Agent Pleakley
Ving Rhames: Cobra Bubbles
Dee Bradley Baker: David Kawena
Kevin Michael Richardson: Captain Gantu
Jeff Bennett: Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel
Zoe Caldwell: Grand Councilwoman
Kunewa Mook: Hula Teacher
Liliana Mumy: Mertle Edmonds
Rob Paulsen: Experiment 625/Reuben
Frank Welker: Experiment 221/Sparky
Leroy & Stitch is an animated movie made by Walt Disney Television Animation.
It is a spin-off movie of the 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch, the end of the television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series, and the end of Lilo's storyline in the entire Lilo & Stitch franchise, with Stitch leaving or getting separated from her in the later TV spin-off series Stitch!
and Stitch & Ai.
The movie premiered on the Disney Channel on June 23, 2006 and also aired on Toon Disney on June 26, 2006.
It was released on DVD in the United States on June 27, 2006, a few days after the TV series finale.
Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs.
Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo.
But Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong, and it's finally time to say "aloha."
Meanwhile, Gantu has left Earth and broken Doctor Jacques von Hamsterviel out of prison, who's planning to create and clone a new experiment named "Leroy," one that will allow him take over the galaxy.
Chris Sanders as Stitch and Leroy
Kevin Michael Richardson as Gantu
Jeff Bennett as Dr. Hämsterviel, Fibber (Experiment 032), Slick (Experiment 020), Ace (Experiment 262), and Clyde (Experiment 150)
Rob Paulsen as Reuben (Experiment 625), Squeak (Experiment 110), Remmy (Experiment 276)
Zoe Caldwell as the Grand Councilwoman
Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles (via telephone)
Liliana Mumy as Mertle Edmonds
Tara Strong as Angel (Experiment 624), The Alien girl from Pleakley's college, Belle (Experiment 248), Houdini (Experiment 604) (uncredited)
Frank Welker as Sparky (Experiment 221), Mr. Stenchy (Experiment 254), Sprout (Experiment 509), Kixx (Experiment 601), Holio (Experiment 606) (uncredited)
Tress MacNeille as Bonnie (Experiment 149), Gigi (Experiment 007), Topper (Experiment 025), Felix (Experiment 010), Melty (Experiment 228), Amnesio (Experiment 303), Richter (Experiment 513), Cannonball (Experiment 520) (uncredited)
Nancy Cartwright as Shortstuff (Experiment 297), Phantasmo (Experiment 375)
Bobcat Goldthwait as Nosy (Experiment 199)
Will Sasso as Heckler (Experiment 322)
Lili Ishida as Yuki
Jillian Henry as Elena
Kali Whitehurst as Teresa
Leroy & Stitch  at Keyframe - the Animation Resource
Leroy and Stitch at Disney DVD and Video
Clips & Trailers of Leroy & Stitch plus bonus episode
And Then There Were None is a famous mystery book by Agatha Christie.
It was first published in 1939.
It is sometimes called Ten Little Indians or Ten Little Niggers.
It has none of Agatha's famous detectives, Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot, but it still has two detectives: Sir Legge and Inspector Maine.
The book is about 10 people who come to an island.
One by one, they all get murdered.
The characters in the book try to find out who the murderer is.
When they all die, Sir Legge and Inspector Maine investigate the murders.
The book is still very popular today.
It includes 10 main characters: Wargrave, Vera, Lombard, Macarthur, Mr. Rogers, Mrs. Rogers, Marston, Blore, Emily Brent, and Dr. Armstrong.
Dworshak Dam is a concrete gravity dam in the western United States, on the North Fork Clearwater River in Clearwater County, Idaho.
It originated for the lower Snake River drainage basin where the USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers) researched it in 1953.
They considered that this place in Idaho could be developed for reservoir storage and hydroelectric power generation.
And the government choice for the final site for Dworshak Dam was at a point on the North Fork of the Clearwater 1.9 miles (3.1 km).
It was built beginning in the year 1966.
It was finished in 1972.
The energy it gives totals 400 megawatts.
Dworshak Dam is the 22nd tallest in the world.
It is the 3rd tallest in the United States.
Dworshak Dam is a concrete dam.
Standing 717 feet (219 m) high from the horizon, 632 feet (193 m) above the riverbed and measurement 3,287 feet (1,002 m) long along its crest.
The top of the dam is 44 feet (13 m) wide at an elevation of 1,613 feet (492 m) above sea level.
The main body of the structure can accommodate about 6,500,000 cubic yards (5,000,000 m3) water.
Tourism and economy
Some people consider that one of the major benefits for building the Dworshak Dam was that it would provide recreation and improve the local economy.
Each year between 110,000 and 140,000 people travel to Dworshak Dam; they mostly choose to visit during the summer high water months.
Leisure activities include boating, water-skiing, camping, fishing, hiking and hunting.
Buildings and structures in Idaho
The Arkansas River is a river in the United States.
It flows southeast and is a tributary of the Mississippi River.
It is the sixth longest river in the United States.
The Arkansas begins in the state of Colorado.
Then, it flows through the states of Kansas and Oklahoma.
It flows into the Mississippi River in Arkansas, which is named for the river.
Riverboats go up the Arkansas River as far as Oklahoma.
It has several major tributaries.
These are the Canadian River, the Cimarron River, and the Salt Fork Arkansas River.
Angel Falls is the tallest waterfall in the world.
It falls  off a mountain called Auyantepui.
It is found in Venezuela, which is a country in South America.
The falls drop so far, the water turns into mist when it reaches the bottom.
The falls are named for Jimmy Angel.
Jimmy Angel was an airplane pilot that crashed at the top of the falls in 1937.
Angel Falls is also called Salto Ángel or indigenously Kerepakupai-merú.
The indigenous name derived from the Pemón natives means "falls from the deepest place".
Ironically, the more famous name of the falls had nothing to do with the connotation that its water fell from the heavens.
Parques Nacionales y espacios protegidos de Venezuela
El Salto Ángel en world-waterfalls.com  (en inglés)
Vista Panorámica del Salto Ángel en viewat.org
SS Andrea Doria was an Italian ocean liner, or passenger ship.
It was owned by a ship line called the Italian Line.
It was said to be the biggest, fastest, safest, and most beautiful ship in Italy after World War II.
It could carry 1,221 passengers and 563 crew.
The ship was built by the Ansaldo Shipyards in Genoa, Italy.
It was launched on June 16, 1951.
Its maiden voyage, or first voyage, was on January 14, 1953.
Three years later in 1956, it crashed with another ship, MS Stockholm, in the Atlantic Ocean.
At that time, 1,134 passengers and 572 crew were on board.
Andrea Doria sank in 11 hours, but Stockholm survived.
The Andrea Doria was the last large ocean liner to sink before airplane travel became popular.
Andrea Doria was built at the Ansaldo Shipyards, which was a shipbuilding company in Genoa, Italy.
At the time of building, she was:
weighed 29,100 gross tons
could hold 1,221 passengers
could hold 563 crew
It was designed for comfort.
Its designer was an Italian architect called Minoletti.
There was also another ship, Cristoforo Colombo, that looked exactly like Andrea Doria.
Andrea Doria was a transatlantic ocean liner, which is a ship that crosses the Atlantic Ocean.
The ship had three swimming pools, and was the first ship to have that many.
Over 1 million dollars were spent on art to decorate the ship.
The ship was also built for safety.
It had 11 watertight compartments.
These are special dividers in a ship to keep water in one place.
If two of them were filled, the ship would not sink.
Andrea Doria also had very advanced radar.
Radar could warn the captain of the Andrea Doria if there was something in the path of the ship.
However one big problem was that the ship often tilted too much to one side.
Andrea Doria had two rows of lifeboats, which are small boats that can evacuate passengers if the ship sinks.
However, if the ship tilted too much, half of the lifeboats could not be used.
Andrea Doria'''s maiden voyage (first voyage) was on January 14, 1953.
Before the collision Andrea Doria sank in the night between July 25, 1956, and July 26, 1956.
When she sank, she had 1,134 passengers and 572 crew members, and her captain was Piero Calamai.
She was sailing in the Atlantic Ocean.
Her path was from Genoa, Italy, to New York, in the United States.
Andrea Doria entered very thick fog when it passed by Nantucket, which is a small island near Massachusetts.
Soon, another ship entered the fog.
This was SS Stockholm.
SS Stockholm was another passenger ship.
Because of the fog, the two ships could not see each other.
When they finally noticed each other, they tried to turn away.
Andrea Doria turned left to pass Stockholm.
But Stockholm turned right to try to pass Andrea Doria.
Because of the fog, they could not see what each other was trying to do.
At 11:10 PM of July 25, 1956, Andrea Doria and Stockholm crashed together.
Sinking Stockholm crashed into the right side of Andrea Doria near the middle.
It made a large hole that was almost  deep.
It broke open several of the watertight compartments on Andrea Doria.
It also broke five fuel tanks.
The fuel tanks were filled by 500 tons of water.
Stockholm and Andrea Doria separated in 30 seconds.
Andrea Doria began to tilt to its right side.
Soon, half of the lifeboats could not be used, because it was tilting too much.
The weight of the fuel tanks that were filled by water also pulled it down.
Stockholm's whole front end was destroyed, but it did not sink.
46 passengers on the Andrea Doria were killed by the crash.
Five crew members of the Stockholm were also killed.
However, one incredible survivor was Linda Morgan, an Andrea Doria passenger who landed on the Stockholm when they crashed.
Thirty minutes after the crash, the people on Andrea Doria decided to abandon the ship.
However, some crew had already left.
This made it harder because no crew was there to help.
However, there were still enough lifeboats to get everyone out safely.
The SS Ile de France, a French ship, arrived at the Andrea Doria to help rescue passengers.
It launched lifeboats to rescue passengers of the Andrea Doria.
The Ile de France had sailed only one day, so it had lots of supplies left to help the passengers of Andrea Doria.
Andrea Doria continued to tilt right, and eventually began to sink on 9:45 AM of July 26, 1956.
Before that, at 9:00 AM, all the survivors were off the ship.
At 10:00 AM, Andrea Doria was tilted so far to the right that its windows touched the ocean.
At 10:09 AM, the ship sank.
This was 10 hours and 59 minutes after it had crashed with the Stockholm.
The back of Andrea Doria rose, and its left propeller lifted out of the water.
Some lifeboats that were still on the ship broke off and floated away upside down.
The ship had drifted 1.6 nautical miles (a measuring distance used at sea) from where it had crashed with the Stockholm.
A total of six different ships rescued passengers of the Andrea Doria, including the Stockholm and Ile de France.
Stockholm was the last to arrive, because it was damaged.
Many families had their hopes of seeing loved ones again destroyed.
The most affected were those who were meeting members of several families immigrating to the United States in hope of new lives.
The Chrysler Norseman, a prototype car headed to New York, was also lost with the other cars aboard Andrea Doria.
A Rolls-Royce luxury car was also on Andrea Doria.
Causes of the sinking
A series of lawsuits were filed by both ship lines in response to the disaster.
The reasons argued included:
Heavy fog was the main reason for the collision and sinking.
However, there were also some other causes.
The crew of Andrea Doria did not use radar properly.
They did not find out the place and speed of Stockholm until the crash.
According to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions At Sea, Andrea Doria was supposed to turn right, not left.
When Andrea Doria turned left, it was actually heading towards the Stockholm.
The Andrea Doria was moving too fast in foggy conditions.
Both ships were actually in different weather, until the crash.
Stockholm had only just entered the fog before the crash.
Andrea Doria's empty fuel tanks were not filled with water to make the ship stable.
A missing watertight door, which blocks water from going into another watertight compartment, was maybe a problem on the Andrea Doria.
The first mate on the Stockholm made a mistake in reading the radar.
Diving Andrea Doria landed on the ocean bottom sideways, with her left side facing up, in good condition.
At first, the top of the shipwreck was in water about  deep.
It was a popular destination for divers.
However, the Andrea Doria has become a difficult ship to explore.
The wreck is at .
More recently, the top part of the ship has collapsed.
Inside the ship, many supports have broken.
The ship is slowly getting shorter as its weight presses downwards.
The top of the wreck is now  below the water.
Fifteen people have died exploring the Andrea Doria.
The front of Stockholm was eventually fixed.
About $1 million was spent.
Now, Stockholm is named Athena, and still sails.
Several books have been published about Andrea Doria.
This is a list of some of them:
Alive on the Andrea Doria: The Greatest Sea Rescue in History, by survivor Pierette Domencia, 2006
Collision Course: The Story of the Collision Between the 'Andrea Doria' and the 'Stockholm' , by Alvin Moscow, 1959
Saved!:
The Story of the Andrea Doria- The Greatest Sea Rescue in History, by William Hoffer, 1979
Desperate Hours: The Epic Rescue of the Andrea Doria, by Richard Goldstein, 2003
A memorial wreath was put at the place where Andrea Doria'' sank in July 2002.
Maritime disasters
Hakka people (Hakka language: Hak-kâ; Mandarin Chinese: Kèjiā) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people.
They live mainly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian in China and speak the Hakka language.
The Hakkas have had an important influence on Chinese and overseas Chinese history: in particular, they have been a source of revolutionary, political and military leaders.
Some of them were Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew and Thaksin Shinawatra.
The secret history of the Hakkas: the Chinese revolution as a Hakka enterprise by Mary S. Erbaugh, The China Quarterly, No.
132, December 1992, pp.
937-968.
Dèng Xiǎopíng  (, in English also written Teng Hsiao-p'ing; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was an important Chinese revolutionary, politician and reformer.
He was the leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but was the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early 1990s.
Deng has often been described as practical due to his open market policies after the death of Mao, whilst not deviating much from the original socialist elements of the People's Republic of China.
Deng was born in Guang'an, Sichuan.
He died of an infection and of  Parkinson's disease in Beijing, aged 92.
Deng's father, Deng Wenming, was a middle-level landowner.
He had studied at the University of Law and Political Science in Chengdu.
His mother, named Dan, died early in Deng's life.
Deng had three brothers and three sisters.
Deng's first wife was one of his schoolmates from Moscow.
She died at the age of 24 a few days after giving birth to Deng's first child, which was a baby girl.
This daughter also died.
His second wife was Jin Weiying.
Jin left him after Deng was attacked in politics 1933.
His third wife Zhuo Lin was the daughter of an industrialist in Yunnan Province.
She became a member of the Communist Party in 1938.
She and Deng married in 1939 in front of Mao's cave home in Yan'an.
They had five children: three daughters (Deng Lin, Deng Nan and Deng Rong) and two sons (Deng Pufang and Deng Zhifang).
Education and early career
In the summer of 1919, Deng Xiaoping graduated from the Chongqing School.
He and 80 schoolmates travelled by ship to France.
They were part of a work-study program.
About 4,000 Chinese did this program by 1927.
Deng was the youngest of all the Chinese students in the group.
He was 15 years old.
Deng's father strongly supported his son's doing the work-study abroad program.
Deng told his father he wanted "to learn knowledge and truth from the West in order to save China."
Deng knew that China was suffering.
He thought Chinese people must have a modern education to save their country.
In France Deng met many future Chinese leaders: Zhou Enlai, Nie Rongzhen, Cai Hesen, Zhao Shiyan and Li Wenhai.
These older Chinese students helped Deng study Marxism.
In 1921 he joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in Europe.
In 1924, he joined the Chinese Communist Party.
He became one of the leaders of the Youth League in Europe.
In 1926 Deng traveled to the Soviet Union and studied at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University.
One of his classmates was Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek.
Return to China
In March 1927, Deng arrived in Xi'an, northwest China from Moscow.
He joined the army of Feng Yuxiang.
Feng had asked the Soviet Union for help.
But at that time, the Soviet Union supported the Communists' alliance with the Nationalists of the Kuomintang (KMT).
In 1929 Deng led the Baise Uprising in Guangxi province against the Kuomintang (KMT) government.
The uprising failed, and Deng went to the Central Soviet Area in Jiangxi province.
Deng went on the Long March with Mao.
During the Japanese Occupation of China, he joined the Eighth Route Army commanded by Liu Bocheng.
After World War II he was part of peace talks between the Communists and the Kuomintang.
These talks failed.
On 1 October 1949, Deng was at proclamation of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.
Deng became mayor of Chongqing and stayed there until 1952.
From 1952 until the early 1960s Deng had many powerful positions in government in Beijing.
But, he became the target of two political purges: the Cultural Revolution and the Criticize Deng campaign in 1976.
Deng said that the Cultural Revolution had been bad for China in 1977 and started the "Beijing Spring."
China started to open more in 1978-79.
Deng worked to reform the Chinese economy and increase exports during the 1980s.
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 weakened him.
He retired from politics in 1992.
Famous quotations
⎡ 不管黑猫白猫,能捉老鼠就是好猫。⎦ Translation: Don't care about whether it is a black cat or a white cat; as long as it is able to catch the mouse, it is a good cat.
⎡ 摸着石頭過河。⎦Translation: To cross a shallow river, one must follow the rocks under the water.
⎡小朋友不聴話,該打打屁股了。⎦ Translation: It's time to smack the bottom of unruly little children. (
When he informed president Jimmy Carter during his visit to the United States, that China was ready to go to war with Vietnam.)
Life of Deng Xiaoping
Wenatchee is a city in Washington State, the United States of America.
The city has a population of about 30,000 people.
It is served by Pangborn Memorial Airport.
The City of Wenatchee, Washington , city government website.
Port of Chelan County, county port district.
Wenatchee Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau, area convention and visitors center.
Wenatchee Valley Chamber of Commerce, area chamber of commerce.
Wenatchee Downtown Association, downtown association.
Reform means a useful change, or sometimes  to a pure original state.
“Reform” means changes.
The UK government frequently uses the term "reform" to describe changes to public services, such as the National Health Service.
But these changes are not accepted by all people as useful.
A note about grammar: when used to describe something which is physically formed again, such as re-casting it in a mold/mould, or a band that gets back together, the proper term is re-form (with a hyphen), not "reform".
The Battle of Granada was a siege of the city of Granada.
It was fought several months and lead to the surrender of Granada on January 2, 1492.
The forces of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile fought against the armies of the Muslim Emirate of Granada.
This relatively small campaign was of enormous consequences because Granada was the last outpost of Al-Andalus in Spain and its fall meant the end of 780 years of Muslim control in the Iberian Peninsula.
It also was the last act in the Reconquista, the campaign by the medieval Christian states of Spain to drive out the Moorish invaders.
Mind Alive Encyclopedia of World History, Marshall Cavendish, (London, 1974)
The Emirate of Granada was established in 1238.
As the Reconquista was very successful after the conquest of Cordoba in 1236, the emirate officially became a tributary state in 1238 and was called the Kingdom of Granada.
The Nasrid emirs and kings were responsible for building most of the palaces in the Alhambra.
The taifa became a vassal state of the Christian kingdom of Castile for the next 250 years.
The Nasrid sultans and kings paid tribute to the Christian kings and cooperated with them in the battle against rebellious Muslims under Castilian rule.
Emirate of Granada on screen
Al-Ándalus III: el Sultanato De Granada (1232-1492) y Una Breve Reseña Sobre la Alhambra
R.H. Shamsuddín Elía, Historia de Al-Andalus, Boletín N° 53 -08/2006 Al-Ándalus III: El Sultanato De Granada (1232-1492)
Nicolás Homar Vives, Genealogy of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada
Genealogy of the Muslim dynasties in Spain
1230 establishments
13th-century establishments in Spain
Michael Sylvester ″Sly″ Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, director, movie producer, body-builder, and screenwriter.
Sylvester Stallone has been in many action movies.
He has played two famous movie characters: Rocky Balboa, the boxer who overcame challenges to fight for love and glory, and John Rambo, a brave soldier who did violent missions.
Stallone is the only actor in the history of U.S. cinema to have been in a successful box office movie for six decades in a row.
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6, 1946 in New York City, and he is the son of Frank Stallone Sr. (
1919 – 2011), a hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone (1921 – 2020), an astrologer, former dancer, and supporter of wrestling for women.
During his birth, doctors used , an instrument that looks like a pair of pincers or tongs, that damaged a nerve and caused paralysis in parts of Stallone's face.
The paralysis caused his well known  speech and drooping lower lip.
Stallone's grandfather, Silvestro Staglione, was an immigrant from Gioia del Colle, in the province of Bari (Apulia, Italy).
Stallone's mother was born in Washington, D.C., and she was the daughter of a Parisian socialite.
When Stallone was between the ages of two and five he boarded in Queens, and he only saw his parents on the weekends.
In 1951 he went back to live with his parents in Maryland where they owned beauty salons.
In 1960s he  attended Abraham Lincoln High School (living in the Tacony section of Philadelphia  which inspired the Rocky stories) after being rejected for the Catholic High School Father Judge and after that he went to beauty school.
In the 1960s, Stallone stopped going to beauty school after he won a scholarship for the American College of Switzerland in Leysin.
There, he studied drama and was well received in school productions.
When he went back to America he went to the Theater Arts Department at University of Miami Florida for three years.
He came within a few credit hours of graduation before he decided to drop out and try a career at writing screenplays under the pen names Q. Moonblood and J.J. Deadlock.
At the same time he started acting in small parts in movies.
Italian Stallion and Score
Stallone had his first role in the softcore pornography movie Party at Kitty and Stud's (1970), which was later re-released as Italian Stallion.
He was paid US$200 for two days work.
An "uncut" version of the movie was released in 2007, and it claimed to show actual hardcore footage of Stallone.
However, trade journal AVN, said that Stallone was not in the hardcore scenes.
In 2008, a DVD was released of White Fire (1976), a dubbed, German edit of 'Party at Kitty and Stud's', which was alleged to include hardcore footage of Stallone.
Stallone also starred in the  play called Score which had 23 performances at the Martinique Theatre from October 28 - November 15, 1971.
It was later made into a movie by Radley Metzger.
Early movie roles, 1971–1975
Stallone's other first few movie roles were small, and he did brief appearances that he did not get credit for in Woody Allen's Bananas (1971) as a subway thug, in the thriller Klute (1971) as an extra dancing in a club, and with Jack Lemmon inThe Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), as a young person.
In the Lemmon movie, Jack Lemmon chases, tackles and  Stallone, thinking that Stallone's character is a thief.
He also starred in the  hit The Lords of Flatbush (1974).
In 1975, he played supporting roles in Farewell, My Lovely, Capone and, another  hit, Death Race 2000.
He also made guest appearances on the TV series Police Story and Kojak.
Success with Rocky, 1976
Stallone was not very well known by a lot of people until his role in Rocky (1976).
On March 24, 1975, he saw the Muhammed Ali–Chuck Wepner fight which gave him the idea for Rocky.
That night Stallone went home, and in three days he had written the script for Rocky.
After that, he tried to sell the script with the intent of playing the lead role.
Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler both  liked the script (which Stallone submitted to them after a casting), and planned on having a star like Burt Reynolds or James Caan to play the lead character.
Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards, this included Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Stallone.
Rocky, Rambo and new movie roles, 1978–1989
The second movie Rocky II which Stallone had also written and directed was released in 1979 and also became a huge success.
The money it made was over US$200 million.
Apart from the Rocky movies, Stallone did many other movies in the late 1970s and early 1980s which were critically acclaimed but were not successful at the box office.
He received critical praise for movies such as F.I.S.T. (1978), a social, narrative styled drama where he plays a warehouse worker who becomes involved in the labor union leadership.
In Paradise Alley (1978), he plays one of three brothers who is a con artist and who helps his other brother who is involved in wrestling.
In the early 1980s, he starred in a movie with the British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory (1981), a sports drama where he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda fußball (soccer) tournament.
Stallone then created the action thriller movie Nighthawks (1981), in which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat and mouse game with a foreign terrorist.
Stallone had another major success when he played as a Vietnam veteran named John Rambo in the action adventure movie First Blood (1982).
The first chapter of Rambo was both a critical and box office success.
The critics praised Stallone's performance, saying he made Rambo seem human despite the way he is described in the book of the same name, First Blood and in the other movies.
Two other Rambo movies Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988) followed (and another, Rambo, in 2008).
Although box office hits, the movies were given much less critical praise than the original.
He also continued his box office success with the Rocky franchise and wrote, directed and starred in two more movies to the series: Rocky III (1982) and Rocky IV (1985).
Stallone also unsuccessfully attempted roles in different genres.
He wrote and starred in the comedy movie Rhinestone (1984) where he played a wannabe country music singer and the drama movie Over the Top (1987) where he played a truck driver who enters an arm wrestling competition to impress his estranged son.
For the Rhinestone soundtrack, he performed a song.
These movies did not do well at the box office and were not well received by critics.
It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels With Dirty Faces.
The movie would form part of his multi-picture deal with Cannon Pictures and he was to co-star with Christopher Reeve.
It was going to be directed by Menahem Golan.
The re-making of such a very much liked classic was given disapproval by Variety Magazine and horror by top critic Roger Ebert.
So, Cannon decided to make Cobra instead.
Cobra (1986) and Tango and Cash (1989) did solid business domestically but overseas they did blockbuster business making over $100 million in foreign markets and over $160 million worldwide.
The Rocky and Rambo franchises at the end of the decade were billion dollar franchises internationally.
With the recent success of Lock Up and Tango & Cash, at the start of the 1990s Stallone starred in the fifth installment of the Rocky series Rocky V which was considered a box office disappointment and was also disliked by fans because it seemed like an unnecessary movie to the series.
It was supposed to have been the last installment in the franchise at the time.
After starring in poorly received Oscar (1991) and Stop!
Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) during the early 90s, he made a big comeback in 1993 with the movie Cliffhanger which became an really successful movie making over US$255 million worldwide.
Later that year he enjoyed another hit with the futuristic action movie Demolition Man which made over $158 million worldwide.
His come back success continued with 1994's The Specialist (over $170 million worldwide).
In 1995, he played the comic book based character Judge Dredd who was taken from the well known British comic book 2000 AD in the movie of the same name.
The money he made from foregin countries saved the domestic box office disappointment of Judge Dredd with a worldwide tally of $113 million.
He also appeared in the thriller Assassins (1995) with the other stars Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas.
In 1996, he starred in the disaster movie Daylight which made only $33 million in the U.S but was a major hit overseas making $126 million, totaling $159,212,469 worldwide.
That same year Stallone, along with an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone short comedy movie Your Studio and You commissioned by the Seagram Company for a party celebrating their earning of Universal Studios and the MCA Corporation.
Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa voice with subtitles translating what he was saying.
At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past; the narrator calms him with a wine cooler and calls him a "brainiac".
In response, Stallone says, "Thank you very much."
He then looks at the wine cooler and exclaims, "Fucking cheap studio!"
Following his amazing performance in Rocky, critic Roger Ebert had once said Stallone could become the next Marlon Brando, although he never received the same critical praise achieved with Rocky.
Stallone did, however, go on to receive much approval for his role in the crime drama Cop Land (1997) in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta.
The movie was only a small success at the box office.
His performance led him to win the Stockholm International movie Festival Best Actor Award.
In 1998 he did voice-over work for the computer-animated movie Antz, which made over $90 million domestically.
Stallone starred in the thriller Get Carter — a remake of the 1971 British Michael Caine movie of the same name—but the movie was not very well received by both critics and audiences.
Stallone's career declined a lot after the movies Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002).
In 2000, Stallone received a "Worst Actor of the Century" Razzie award, citing "95% of Everything He's Ever Done" rather than one movie.
By 2000, Stallone had been awarded four Worst Actor Razzie awards for individual movies.
These include a "Worst Screen Couple" Razzie, and a "Worst Actor of the Decade" Razzie for the 1980s.
He had been nominated for the Worst Actor award for nine different years from 1984 to 1992.
In 2003, he played as a villain in the third movie of the Spy Kids trilogy Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over which was a huge box office success (almost $200 million worldwide).
Stallone also had a small appearance in the 2003 French movie Taxi 3 as a passenger.
Following several poorly reviewed box office flops, Stallone started to regain fame for his role in the crime drama Shade (2003) which was a box office failure but was praised by critics.
He was also supposed to star and direct a movie about the murder of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, entitled  Notorious, but the movie was not made due to legal issues presented by the 2009 movie of the same name.
In 2005, he was the co-presenter alongside Sugar Ray Leonard of the NBC Reality television boxing series The Contender.
That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the television series Las Vegas.
In 2005, Stallone also inducted wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the small part in Rocky III.
Revisiting Rocky and Rambo, 2006–2008
After taking a break from making movies, Stallone made a comeback in 2006 with the sixth and final installment of his successful Rocky series; Rocky Balboa, which was both a critical and commercial hit.
After the critical and box office failure of the previous and presumed last movie Rocky V, Stallone had decided to end the series with a sixth movie which would be a more appropriate ending to the series.
The total domestic box office came to $70.3 million (and $155.3 million worldwide).
The budget of the movie was only $24 million.
His performance in Rocky Balboa has been praised by mostly positive reviews.
When he was asked in February 2008 about which of the icons he would want to be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, but Rocky is my first baby, so Rocky."
Recent movies
Stallone worked on The Expendables, starring, writing, and directing.
He has said that he wants to adapt the Nelson DeMille novel, The Lion's Game.
He wants to direct a movie on Edgar Allan Poe's life, a script that he has been preparing for years.
It has also been been confirmed that he will be making a fifth Rambo movie after the success of the fourth one in 2008.
Other movie work
Stallone's first work as a director came in 1978 with Paradise Alley, which he wrote and starred in.
He also directed Staying Alive (the sequel to Saturday Night Fever), along with Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa, and Rambo.
Stallone wrote all six Rocky films, He also wrote Cobra, Driven and Rambo.
He has co-written several other movies, such as F.I.S.T., Rhinestone, Over the Top and the first three Rambo movies.
His last major success as a co-writer was with 1993's Cliffhanger.
Competition with Arnold Schwarzenegger
Stallone has always been considered a opponent to Arnold Schwarzenegger as an action hero actor.
Hints to this have been made in both of their movies.
In Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero, Stallone is seen as playing the Terminator in a video advertisement in the film's  real life.
In Stallone's Demolition Man, there is a futuristic reference to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library.
Also in the movie Twins, Arnold Schwarzenegger walks by a giant movie poster for Rambo III.
He glances at the size of Stallone's biceps on the poster, and then he feels his own and laughs at how much smaller Stallone's are.
According to both Stallone and Schwarzenegger, despite their on camera "rivalry", they are both very close friends.
While promoting the movies Rocky Balboa and Rambo on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Stallone revealed that in the 1980s he and Schwarzenegger looked at each other as "Cain and Abel."
Stallone then said that, in the 1990s, he and Arnold became the friends they are today.
They became one time business partners in Planet Hollywood.
Stallone has been married three times.
At age 28, on December 28, 1974, he married Sasha Czack.
The couple had two sons, Sage Moonblood (May 5, 1976 - July 13, 2012) and Seargeoh (b. 1979).
His younger son was diagnosed with autism at an early age.
The couple divorced on February 14, 1985.
The same year his divorce finalized, he married model/actress, Brigitte Nielsen, on December 15, 1985, in Beverly Hills, California.
His second marriage lasted two years.
In May 1997, Stallone married Jennifer Flavin; he has  three daughters with her: Sophia Rose (b. 27 August 1996), Sistine Rose (b. 27 June 1998), and Scarlet Rose (b. 25 May 2002).
Although Stallone is registered as a Republican, he has donated $44,000 to Democratic Party candidates over the years, including $30,000 to the Democratic National Committee, as well as money to the campaigns of Bill Bradley and Joe Biden.
However, he has also donated over $33,000 to Republicans over the years and publicly supported John McCain for president in 2008.
Terence Alan Milligan  (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) known as Spike Milligan, was an British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor.
He was famous for The Goon Show amongst other things.
He died of kidney failure.
On his grave, written in Irish is: "I told you I was ill".
Irish comedians
Irish writers
Robin Cook (28 February 1946 – 6 August 2005) was a politician in the British Labour Party.
He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001.
He resigned from the cabinet in 2003 in protest after the Invasion of Iraq.
The Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu (Cultural Leonese Association of the Leonese Language El Fueyu) is a Leonese language who wants to promote the knowledge of Leonese language and the defense of the rights of Leonese language speakers.
The Asociación Cultural de la Llingua Llïonesa El Fueyu have signed many agreements with the most important leonese institutions for teaching Leonese language in official courses.