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Asuncion was founded in 1537 by a man from Spain named Juan de Salazar.
Paraguay was a colony of Spain.
Paraguay became independent from Spain in 1811.
From 1865-1870 Paraguay lost land and most of its male population in the War of the Triple Alliance against Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
It gained land in the Chaco War against Bolivia in the 1930s.
Paraguay has 17 departments and one capital district (Distrito Capital).
The departments are formed by districts.
Occidental (Western) region or Chaco, to the north of the Paraguay river (departments: Alto Paraguay, Boquerón and Presidente Hayes)
Oriental (Eastern) region, to the south of the Paraguay river (departments: Alto Paraná, Amambay, Caaguazú, Caazapá, Canindeyú, Central, Concepción, Cordillera, Guairá, Itapúa, Misiones, Paraguarí, San Pedro and Ñeembucú; the capital district is part of this region)
1811 establishments
Loch Ness is a loch in the Scottish Highlands.
It is also on the Great Glen Fault and part of the Caledonian Canal.
Loch Ness is 36 kilometres long and only 1.5 kilometres wide.
It is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area at , after Loch Lomond.
Because of its great depth, it is the largest by volume.
Its deepest point is .
This is deeper than any other loch except Loch Morar.
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Fort Augustus near Loch Ness
Lakes of the United Kingdom
Gary Burghoff  (born May 24, 1943) is an American actor, artist, and musician.
He is probably best known for his role as Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, a company clerk that had extraordinary hearing, in the 1970 movie M*A*S*H and on the television series of the same name.
Burghoff also has a deformed hand which was hidden on the show by special camera tricks and he held it behind his back a lot.
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The book Wuthering Heights is published
February 22 – The Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican–American War
March 29 – Veracruz is taken by General Winfield Scott
May 7 – The American Medical Association is founded
July 24 – The Mormon pioneers under Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake City to begin settling Utah.
July 26 – Liberia becomes a country
February 11 – Thomas Edison
March 3 – Alexander Graham Bell
April 10 – Joseph Pulitzer
September 5 – Jesse James
March 11 – Johnny Appleseed
November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn
Fred Gwynne (born July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was an American actor.
He is best known for his role as Herman Munster in The Munsters.
He played Francis Muldoon in Car 54, Where Are You?.
The Munsters and Car 54, Where Are You?
were television situation comedies.
He also wrote children's literature.
Cannabis is a genus of plant.
There are three species: Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, and Cannabis ruderalis.
The cannabis plant's flowers contain a chemical or drug known as THC (short for tetra-hydro-cannabinol).
Smoking or eating the flower can make a person feel euphoric (very good) or sleepy.
The plant is also used to make hemp fibre, and for its seeds and seed oil.
In its natural environment, THC's purpose was to protect itself against being eaten.
There are many varieties of cannabis, and those low on THC production are selected for producing hemp and seeds.
Since the 19th century, Cannabis has become an illegal drug in many countries.
In the 21st century, some countries have made cannabis legal again.
Others allow cannabis to be used as medicine when people have certain medical conditions.
Scientists believe that cannabis first grew somewhere in the Himalayas.
Evidence of people smoking cannabis goes as far back as prehistory: archaeologists have found burnt hemp seeds at a burial site in what is now Romania.
The most famous users of cannabis were the ancient Hindus, who called it ganjika in Sanskrit (ganja in modern Indian languages).
According to legend, the Indian god Shiva told his followers to worship the plant.
The ancient drug soma was sometimes associated with cannabis.
People in the Persian Empire (what is now Iran) would light giant campfires made of cannabis, exposing themselves to the smoke.
The ceremony was known as "the booz-rooz."
Cannabis was also known in ancient Greece, where magicians would burn its flowers in order to cause strange thoughts in the audience members'  minds.
Historians think that the cult of Dionysus also began in ancient Greece and involved inhaling cannabis smoke.
Drug effects
When a person inhales cannabis smoke or consumes cannabis, he or she may get a feeling called "getting high" or "getting stoned".
Cannabis's most common effects include feeling happy, relaxed, tired, silly or scared; having many ideas about what to do; not being able to think clearly (or remember some things at all); and getting hungry (also called getting "the munchies").
Smoking cannabis changes how people think and feel, making it either harder or easier to solve some problems.
Some people who take cannabis feel strange or paranoid (worried that something bad is going to happen).
Hashish (dried resin) is much more concentrated than cannabis (it includes both leaves and flowers).
Because of this, people who take large amounts of hashish may feel even stronger effects.
They may also see things or hear things that do not exist (these are called hallucinations).
They may also have strange thoughts.
Some hashish users like the feeling of these visions and thoughts, while others may find them scary.
However, people rarely get hallucinations after smoking or eating cannabis.
As of 2016, many different countries and some states in the United States have made it legal for people with certain medical problems to use cannabis as a medicine.
Medical use of cannabis is legal in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom
In the United States, as of February 2018, 30 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Guam, had legalized medical cannabis.
However, using cannabis for any reason is still illegal under federal law.
According to a 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, cannabis (especially THC) can decrease pain; control nausea and vomiting; and improve appetite.
As of June 2016, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, "Further studies have found that cannabis [helps] some of the symptoms of HIV/AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis.
On December 11, 2013, Uruguay was the first country in the world to make it legal to grow, sell, and use cannabis for personal (or recreational) use.
Other countries that allow people to have small amounts of cannabis (just enough for them to use personally) include Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
In the United States, on January 1, 2014, the states of Washington and Colorado made it legal for people aged 21 or older to buy cannabis.
In November 2016, California did the same thing, and has been selling cannabis in stores since January 2018.
As of October 17th, 2018, Canada has become the first G7 nation to make cannabis legal.
Each province of Canada has its own legal minimum age to buy and use (either 18-years-old and older, 19-years-old and older, or 21-years-old and older) and how much of it is allowed to have at one time.
Health risks
Cannabis is one of the least dangerous of the commonly used illegal drugs.
It is almost impossible to overdose on cannabis.
A person would have to smoke their entire body weight in five minutes in order to overdose.
It is a common belief that people who use cannabis are less interested in life and may not want to go to school or work (scientists call this "amotivational syndrome").
However, many reports show that people who use cannabis do just as well as non-users.
Driving while "stoned"
A person who is intoxicated ("high" or "stoned") from cannabis could get hurt or killed in an accident if they drive a car.
It is not safe to drive under the influence of any intoxicant.
However, drivers who are "stoned" are much less likely to get into car accidents than drunk drivers and in some cases, sober drivers.
"Hard drugs", such as heroin, meth, and cocaine, are chemically addictive.
This means that if a person starts taking heroin, meth, or cocaine, that person's body will physically need to keep taking the drug.
If they try to stop using the drug, they may become very sick.
Cannabis and hashish are not chemically addictive, but they can be psychologically or habitually addictive.
This means that people can get so used to the pleasure cannabis causes that they feel as if they need the drug.
Unlike with alcohol, tobacco, and hard drugs, most people who use cannabis can stop taking it when they want, while experiencing only minor withdrawal symptoms.
However, while cannabis may not be as addictive as other drugs, people can still become very much addicted to the pleasure of cannabis.
Nevada is one of the United States' states.
Its capital is Carson City.
Other big cities are Las Vegas, Henderson and Reno.
Nevada was originally founded in 1821 as part of the First Mexican Empire.
The Mexican Empire turned into the Mexican Republic in 1823, along with Nevada.
Before the arrival of Europeans, Nevada was inhabited by Native American tribes including the Shoshone, the Paiute, the Washoe, and the Mohave.
The Mexican-American Conflict
Fighting between the United States and Mexico started.
They fought over what was to become the Southwestern United States and who could own this land.
This was called the Mexican-American War.
The war ended in an American victory in 1848.
Nevada later became an American territory in 1861.
It was called the "Nevada Territory".
This was not all of Nevada as it is today.
The eastern part of Nevada was part of "Utah Territory"  and the southern part was part of "New Mexico".
In 1859 in the Comstock Lode, gold and silver were first discovered.
This started a huge growth in mining in the state which Nevada is known for.
Gaining statehood
On October 31, 1864, now celebrated as "Nevada Day", Nevada was made the 36th state in the United States.
It was given the distinct shape resembling a rectangle with a triangle.
It was named Nevada meaning "snowy land" in Spanish, because it was snowy in the North.
Later, on May 5, 1866, Nevada got its current borders because the Pah-Ute County in Arizona was taken as part of Nevada.
It is now Clark County, Nevada.
It was also agreed upon that the western part of Utah would become Eastern Nevada.
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Tourism is very important to the economy of Nevada.
Many people visit Las Vegas, which has many casinos and resorts.
There is not as much farming as there is in some other states, because Nevada is so dry.
However, mining is big in Nevada.
More gold is mined in Nevada than in any other state.
State of Nevada official website
1864 establishments in the United States
Comoros (officially called Union of the Comoros) is a small island nation in the Indian Ocean.
It is between Madagascar and mainland Africa.
The capital is Moroni on Grande Comore.
The population (except for Mayotte) is about 798,000 people.
The Comoros Islands are in the Indian Ocean, between Mozambique and Madagascar.
It is the southernmost member state of the Arab League.
There are 4 islands from west to east: Grande Cormore, Moheli, Anjouan and Mayotte.
All the islands are of volcanic origin.
Islam is the official religion of Comoros with over 90% of the population being Sunni Muslims.
Mayotte is also a territory that is claimed by Comoros but is under occupation by the French as an  overseas territory.
The other islands form the independent state of Comoros.
The country has a history with many coup d'état since independence in 1975.
As of 2008, about half the people live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a day.
Mount Karthala is the country's highest point.
Karthala is an active shield volcano on Grand Cormore.
It had a minor eruption in May 2006.
The Comoros is formed by Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli) and Nzwani (Anjouan), the three major islands in the Comoros Archipelago.
There are also many minor islets.
The islands are officially known by their Comorian language names.
International sources still use their French names (given in parentheses above).
The capital and largest city is Moroni on Ngazidja.
At 2,034 km2 (785 sq mi), it is one of the smallest countries in the world.
The interiors of the islands vary from steep mountains to low hills.
The climate is generally tropical and mild.
The rainy season runs from December to April.
It is called kashkazi/kaskazi, meaning north monsoon.
The cool, dry season is from May to November.
It is called kusi, meaning south monsoon.
The temperature reaches an average of  in March, the hottest month.
The average low is  in the dry season.
The islands are rarely subject to cyclones.
The President of the Comoros is both head of state and head of government.
The constitution was adopted on 23 December 2001.
It was last amended in May 2009.
In November 1975, the Comoros became the 143rd member of the United Nations.
The citizens of Mayotte chose to become French citizens and keep their island as a French territory.
There is a small standing army.
This includes a 500-member police force and a 500-member defense force.
A treaty with France provides navy protection for territorial waters.
The Comoros is one of the world's poorest countries.
Agriculture is the leading sector of the economy.
Agriculture includes fishing, hunting, and forestry.
The Comoros is the world's largest producer of ylang-ylang.
It is a large producer of vanilla.
The oat (Avena sativa) is a cereal grain.
It is food for people and other animals, for example, chickens and horses.
Oatmeal is made from oats.
Oat straw is used as bedding for animals.
Porridge is made only from whole grain oats.
It forms an excellent part of a balanced diet for the following reasons:
Oats are rich in both soluble and insoluble fiber.
Oats are a place to get energy.
As a rich place to get complex carbohydrates, they provide a slow release of energy over the morning – in that way they reduce the desire to eat ‘quick energy release’ sugar-based foods.
Oats are also a good place to get protein.
Oats are also a good place to get vitamin B1.
The wild ancestor of Avena sativa and the similar minor crop, A. byzantina, is the hexaploid wild oat A. sterilis.
Science of DNA shows that the ancestor forms of A. sterilis grew in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East.
Domesticated oats appear later.
They are also far from the Near East, in Bronze Age Europe.
Oats are like rye.
They are normally thought as a less important crop, i.e. coming from a weed out of the main cereals wheat and barley   As these cereals spread into cooler, wetter places, this may have favored the oat weed.
This quickly leads to its common use.
Oats are grown all over temperate places.
They have a lower summer heat need and are able to survive more rain than other cereals like wheat, rye or barley.
Oats are an annual plant, and can be planted either in autumn (for late summer harvest) or in the spring (for early autumn harvest).
Historical attitudes towards oats are very different.
Oat bread was first made in England, where the first oat bread factory was made in 1899.
In Scotland, are well liked, as a good part of the national diet.
The English writer Samuel Johnson, famously wrote in A Dictionary of the English Language that the oat was a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Which the Scottish quickly said back "and England has the best horses, and Scotland the best men."
Oats have many uses in food.
Most of the time they are rolled or crushed into oatmeal, or ground into oat flour.
Oatmeal is also eaten as porridge, but may also be used in many of baked goods, such as oat cakes, oatmeal cookies, and oat bread.
Oats are also an substance used in many cold cereals, in particular muesli and granola.
Without cooking, oats may also be taken as food.
Oats are also sometimes used in drinks.
In Britain, it is used for making beer.
Oatmeal stout is one of many beers using some oats.
A cold, sweet drink made of ground oats and milk is a well liked drink in  Latin America. '
Oatmeal caudle', made of ale and oatmeal with spices was a usual British drink and well-liked by Oliver Cromwell.
In Scotland a dish called Sowans was made by putting the husks from oats in water for a week so that the fine, dusty part of the meal remained at the bottom to be strained off, boiled and taken as food (Gauldie 1981).
Oats are also widely used there as a thickener in soups, as barley or rice might be used in other countries.
Oats and its hulls are also commonly used as feed for horses - as  whole or rolled oats or as part of  food bits.
Cattle are also fed oats, either whole, or ground into a  flour using a mill.
Oat straw is prized by cattle and horse makers as bedding, because its soft, almost dust-free, and takes in liquid.
The straw can also be used for making corn dollies.
Tied in a cotton bag, oat straw was used to soften bath-water.
Things take out of oatscan also be used to make pain less sharp in the skin, as in skin lotions.
It is the main substance in the Aveeno line of products.
Oats are mostly thought as "healthy" food.
The finding of the healthy LDL cholesterol-lowering properties has led to more liking of oats as human food.
Oat is the only cereal having a globulin or legume-like protein, avenalin, as the major (80%) storage protein.
Globulins can be taken up by weak salt water.
The more common cereal proteins are gluten and zein.
The minor protein of oat is avenin.
Oat protein is almost the same in quality as soy bean protein, which has been shown by the World Health Organization to be equal to meat, milk, and egg protein.
The amount of protein of the hull-less oat kernel ranges from 12–24%, which is the highest among cereals.
Kapingamarangi is an atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
It is part of the Federated States of Micronesia.
There are about 700 people living in Kapingamarangi.
The inhabitants speak the Kapingamarangi language, a Polynesian dialect.
The Kapingamarangi people live a simple life.
They believe that it's not what you have that is important.
They help each other, neighbors, relatives, and everybody.
They share what they have.
The sea provides a significant source of food.
And the people are very talented in doing all the different types of fishing.
Kiribati (pronounced "KiriBASS") is an island country located on the Pacific Ocean.
It has 33 atolls, groups of tiny islands.
The country is near the equator.
Its capital is South Tarawa, on the Tarawa atoll.
Kiribati used to be called the Gilbert Islands.
In 1892, the Gilbert Islands became a British protectorate with the Ellice Islands (nowadays known as Tuvalu), together called Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
Kiribati became an independent republic in 1979.
Kiribati signed a "Treaty of Friendship and Territorial Sovereignty" (also called the "Treaty of Tarawa") with the United States in 1979.
The USA gave up its claims to the islands of Canton, Enderbury, Hull, Birnie, Gardner, Phoenix, Sydney, McKean, Christmas, Caroline, Starbuck, Malden, Flint, and Vostok in that treaty.
1979 establishments
Bisexuality is a sexual orientation.
Bisexual (also bi) people are sexually attracted to both men and women.
Some bisexual people love men and women the same and some people love one more than the other.
A popular myth within the LGBT community is that bisexual people can only be attracted to cis people (people who identify with their assigned birth gender), and/or males and females.
Some bisexual people have preferences to one or more sexes, however some may not.
Both attractions are entirely valid and accepted by the bisexual community, as bisexuality is fluid and is a different experience for every bisexual person.
In 1948, Alfred Kinsey published the Kinsey scale.
The Kinsey scale shows that sexuality is a continuum, meaning it moves little by little from heterosexuality to homosexuality.
On the Kinsey scale, a 0 is someone who is only heterosexual.
A 6 is someone who is only homosexual.
Someone who is equally homosexual and heterosexual (bisexual) is a 3.
In biology, bisexual can define an organism that has both male and female organs.
This mostly refers to plants.
Sexual orientation and bisexuality FAQ's from the American Psychological Association
James D. Weinrich, Sexual Landscapes: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love, Charles Scribner's Sons, December 1987.
Barbados is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean.
The island has an area of about 430 km².
Its capital and largest city is Bridgetown.
The official language of Barbados is English.
Barbados is a popular tourist destination.
In 2008, the island had a population of about 284,000 people.
About 80,000 live in or around Bridgetown.
The island is in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea.
It is about  east of the islands of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and  north-east of Trinidad and Tobago.
Barbados is outside of the main Atlantic hurricane belt.
It abolished the monarchy and become a republic on 30 November 2021.
The earliest inhabitants of Barbados were Native Americans.
Barbados was first visited by the Spanish around the late 1400s to early 1500s.
It first was on a Spanish map in 1511.
The native Arawaks may have fled or been enslaved.
The Portuguese visited in 1536.
They brought wild hogs for a good supply of meat whenever the island was visited.
The first English ship, the Olive Blossom, came in 1624.
They said the island belonged to the British king James I. Two years later in 1627 the first permanent settlers arrived from England.
Slaves from Africa were sent to Barbados to work on sugar plantations.
Barbados has been an independent country since 30 November 1966.
Elizabeth II, Queen of Barbados was the head of state.
The Queen was represented locally by the Governor-General.
The Prime Minister is the local head of the government.
On 30 November 2021, the country became a republic with the President of Barbados becoming the head of state.
This means the monarchy and the office of governor-general were be abolished on this date and replaced by the presidency.
The Barbados Defence Force (BDF) is the name given to the combined armed forces of Barbados.
The BDF was established August 15, 1979, and has responsibility for the territorial defence and internal security of the island.
The headquarters for the Barbados Defence Force are in the St. Ann's Fort area at The Garrison, Saint Michael.
Barbados Coast Guard — this is the maritime element, with responsibility for patrolling Barbados' territorial waters as well as drug interdiction and humanitarian and life-saving exercises.
It too encompasses both regular and reserve units.
Barbados Cadet Corp — Military youth organisation.
This organisation was started in 1904.
The first females joined the cadet corps in 1970s to 1980s.
The Cadet Corps has a pledge and also a song.
It started with 3 normal units but today has expanded to 22.
There are also a band, sea cadet and medical units along with a shooting programme.
Barbados is the easternmost island in the Lesser Antilles.
It is flat in comparison to its island neighbours to the west.
The highest point of the nation is Mount Hillaby.
The country usually has two seasons.
The "wet season" is from June to November.
The "dry season" is from December to May.
The population of Barbados is about 300,000 people, nearly 90% of that is predominantly of African and Mixed descent, 6% are Asian and 4% Whites.
There is also an East Indian minority on the island and Chinese and other ethnic groups.
Gypsies were expelled to Barbados during the colonial era.
Most Barbadians are Christians (95%).
The most common Christian church is Anglicans (40%).
Other Christian churces in Barbados are the Catholic Church, Pentecostals (Evangelicals) Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventist and Spiritual Baptists.
The Church of England was the official state religion.
It was ended by the Parliament of Barbados after independence.
Other religions include Hindus, Muslims, the Baha'i Faith, Jews and Wiccans.
The influence of the English on Barbados is more noticeable than on other islands in the West Indies.
A good example of this is the island's national sport: cricket.
Barbados has had several great cricketers, including Sir Garfield Sobers and Sir Frank Worrell.
In Barbados, the official language is English.
But they also speak an English-African Creole language known as Bajan.
Cricket is very popular on the island.
Barbadians play on the West Indies cricket team.
The country hosted the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
Obadele Thompson is a world class sprinter from Barbados.
Ryan Brathwaite, a hurdler, reached the 2008 Olympic semi-finals in Beijing.
Over half a million tourists visit Barbados every year.
Barbados has several beautiful beaches which are well maintained and the sea water is crystal clear.
There are also features such as Blackmans Gully, Barbados Wildlife Reserve and Harrison’s Cave which have been developed for tourism.
The annual Crop Over festival attracts many visitors to Barbados.
Barbados also has a rich history.
Many historic sites and buildings such as Sunbury Plantation House and St. Nicholas Abbey have been preserved or restored.
Visitors can visit these sites and learn about the history of Barbados.
A joint tourism initiative has been undertaken between Barbados and the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) to the tune of US$20 million.
It is aimed at repositioning the tourism sector through the implementation of key tourism initiatives.
Barbados Government Information Network  - Official website
Barbados -Citizendium
Former British colonies
1966 establishments in North America
Annie (1976  present) is a musical.
The book was written by Thomas Meehan.
The lyrics were written by Martin Charnin.
The music was written by Charles Strouse.
Annie is based on characters and concepts created by Harold Gray for the comic strip Little Orphan Annie.
The musical premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in 1977.
It ran for about six years.
A West End production opened in 1978.
Annie won three Tony Awards, including the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Annie, an 11-year-old orphan
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks, a billionaire
Grace, his assistant
Miss Hannigan, the matron of an orphanage
Rooster, Miss Hannigan's brother
Lily St. Regis, Rooster's girlfriend
Annie lives in an orphanage run by Miss Hannigan.
She is chosen from the orphans to spend two weeks with Oliver Warbucks.
He grows to love her.
When he learns that she wants to find her parents, he offers a large reward.
Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily scheme to kidnap Annie, but their plot fails, and they are sent to prison.
Annie was made into a movie in 1982 starring Albert Finney, Aileen Quinn, Bernadette Peters, and Carol Burnett.
Musicals based on comic strips
James Taylor (born March 12, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter.
He is popular for his songs "Fire and Rain", "You've Got a Friend", and "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)".
Taylor is a Democrat and  attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.
Taylor even performed during Obama's second inauguration.
Singers from North Carolina
Truro is the capital of Cornwall in South West England.
It is the only city in Cornwall, and it is the most southerly city in the British Isles.
The River Truro flows though Truro and boats can travel to Truro along the river.
Truro became a large town in the 19th century because of the tin mining industry of west Cornwall.
When a new Church of England diocese for Cornwall was set up in 1876 Truro became the seat of the bishop.
Truro Cathedral took many years to build but was finished in 1910.
It is built in the Early English Gothic revival style.
Truro also became the county town of Cornwall when a county council was set up in 1888.
The Royal Cornwall Museum is Cornwall's county museum and is owned by the Royal Institution of Cornwall (founded 1818).
Settlements in Cornwall
Cities in England
March 12 –  New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain.
San Francisco is a city in the U.S. state of California.
It is famous for the Golden Gate Bridge.
With a population of 744,041, San Francisco is the 13th largest city in the United States, and the 4th largest city in California behind Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose.
It is in the northern part of California, between the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay.
The urbanized San Francisco Bay Area surrounds it.
San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish conquerors.
It was called "Hierba Buena" which is Spanish for "Good Herb", because a lot of mint grew there.
After the Mexican-American War, Yerba Buena was taken over by the United States.
In 1848 it was renamed "San Francisco" and became a city in 1850.
The city is famous for its many internet companies and being home to a large LGBTQ+ population.
San Francisco has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb in the Köppen climate classification).
The record high temperature is 41.1 °C (106 °F) on September 1, 2017.
The record low temperature is -4.4 °C (24 °F) on December 9, 1972.
San Francisco Hotels
1850 establishments in California
1776 establishments in North America
Pelops is a person from Greek mythology.
He was the son of Tantalus and Dione and the father of Pittheus, Plisthenes, Atreus, Thyestes, Chrysippus and Copreus.
Tantaus cut Pelops into pieces and served him to the gods in a stew.
He was later put back together.
People in Greek mythology
A job can also mean: work that a person does to earn money.
The word "job" may be used when a person works for someone else "an employer" who pays them for the work.
For example, a teacher's job is to teach children or adults.
A taxi driver's job is to drive people in a taxi.
A firefighter rescues people from burning buildings and puts out fires.
A dermatologist's job is to diagnose and treat skin diseases.
Some jobs pay very little.
The International Labour Organization was established to make people's job conditions better.
It became an organization of the United Nations in 1946.
Organ (anatomy), a part of the body
Organ (music), a family of keyboard instruments which is usually played with both the hands and the feet.
Crops are living plants grown by farmers.
Most crops are foods such as grain, vegetables, or fruit.
Some crops are for drugs, such as quinine, or fibers such as cotton, or other materials such as rubber or wood.
Farms are usually made to grow just one kind of crop.
Crops are domesticated plants, most of which have been selected to improve their size, taste and other qualities.
Many crops are farmed in monoculture.
Growingng crops is a part of agriculture.
Important food crops
The following crops are very important as food to humans (The numbers shows the kcal of a person for a day).
They are: rice (541 kcal), wheat (527 kcal), sugarcane and other sugar crops (200 kcal), maize (corn) (147 kcal), soybean oil (82 kcal), other vegetables (74 kcal), potatoes (64 kcal), palm oil (52 kcal), cassava (37 kcal), legumes (37 kcal), sunflower oil (35 kcal), rapeseed and mustard oil (34 kcal), other fruits, (31 kcal), sorghum (28 kcal), millet (27 kcal), groundnuts (25 kcal), beans (23 kcal), sweet potatoes (22 kcal), bananas (21 kcal), various nuts (16 kcal), soybeans (14 kcal), cotton oil (13 kcal), groundnut oil (13 kcal), yams (13 kcal).
The proletariat (often shortened to "prole" in slang) is a term used by communists for a segment of society.
It describes the class of workers in urban areas who work in industry or manufacturing.
These urban workers are different from the peasants, who are workers who do farming jobs in rural areas.
Someone is who part of the proletariat class is called a proletarian.
The political way of thinking of communism states that the proletariat should have a revolution and take over the means of production.
They are often sarcastically referred to as "wage-slaves."
The proletariat is the laboring bulk of society that does most of the useful, necessary work, and pays most of the taxes.
It is also perceived by "capitalists" (another communist term) as being necessary for those reasons: labor and taxes, plus being available to exploit to produce profits.
The word proletariat comes from the Latin word proletarius, which means "maker of offspring".
In Ancient Rome, the proletarii were the people who were so poor that the only form of property that they had were their children, who could be used as soldiers.
Karl Marx used the word proletariat to describe people who did not own the means of productions (such as factories and land) and had to work for others for a wage.
He thought the proletariat class could overthrow the capitalist system and society more just.
He learned about the word while studying Roman law in Berlin.
In Marxist theory, the lumpenproletariat ("rag-proletariat" in German) were a class of people who were not interested in revolution.
The Ohio River is the one of the most important tributaries to the Mississippi River.
It is 981 miles long and it forms boundaries for the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, and West Virginia before finally going to its headwaters in Pennsylvania.
It is its widest a little to the West of downtown Louisville, where it is one mile wide.
Cities on the Ohio River include Evansville, Indiana, Paducah, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The river begins in Pittsburgh.
The Wabash, Kentucky and the Tennessee Rivers flow into the Ohio.
Historic Ohio, the magazine
Ohio Historical Preservation Group
Ohio River Valley Families Online Searchable Database, a genealogy resource
Image at the confluence with the Mississippi River
Watershed information
Ohio River Forecast Center, which issues official river forecasts for the Ohio River and its tributaries.
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Croatia ( ) is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of Central Europe, and Southern Europe, being influenced by powers from both regions at varying points in its history.
Its capital and largest city is Zagreb.
It was one of the republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
It became independent in 1991.
It joined the European Union on 1 July 2013.
In earlier times, the land now known as Croatia was inhabited by different kinds of humans including Neanderthals and Neolithic cultures.
In Roman times, seafaring pirates known to the Romans as the Dalmatian Tribes lived there, as the Histri, Liburni and the Delmatae.
The Romans conquered and annexed the territory in 9 AD, calling it the province of "Dalmatia," named after these tribes.
During more than 400 years of Roman rule, the province of Dalmatia would become Romanized.
The Roman invaders mixed with the natives and their descendants adopted a Roman lifestyle even after the collapse of the Roman state in 476 AD.
In the early seventh century AD, pagan West Slavs named the Croats (where Croatia gets its name) came to live in the former province of Dalmatia when they conquered the people already living there.
However, they would soon be influenced by Roman Catholic Christian missionaries who completed the process of Christianization in the early 9th century.
From the time of the crowning of Tomislav in 925 as the first King of Croatia, Croatia would become its own independent Catholic kingdom until 1102, when a Hungarian prince inherited the Croatian throne.
The Hungarians would rule as Kings of Croatia until the early modern period, when the last Hungarian king of Croatia Louis II was killed at the Battle of Mohacs in 1526 and the kingdom chose the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand as king the next year.
Croatia would remain as a part of the empire of Austria-Hungary under Ferdinand's descendants until 1918.
In 1918 it became a part of Kingdom of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs, later named Yugoslavia which was occupied in World War II.
In 1945, Croatia became a part of new Yugoslavia (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) which was non-aligned after breaking connections with Eastern Bloc.
It collapsed in 1991 as initially Slovenia, than Croatia, later other republics claimed independence and became parliamentary democracies.
War with Yugoslavia made a strong impact on society in economic, political and cultural terms.
Civil society and media that came out of anti-war struggle in Croatia grew against nationalism, media and civil freedoms, later also corruption.
In recent decades Croatia is increasingly popular tourist destination, especially the coastal regions of Dalmatia and Istria.
Croatia is in Central and Southeast Europe, bordering Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the south-east,  Montenegro to the south-east, the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and Slovenia to the northwest.
It lies mostly between latitudes 42° and 47° N and longitudes 13° and 20° E. Part of the territory in the extreme south surrounding Dubrovnik is a practical exclave connected to the rest of the mainland by territorial waters, but separated on land by a short coastline strip belonging to Bosnia and Herzegovina around Neum.
Croatia is divided into 21 counties.
Croatia is the 127th largest country in the world.
The highest point is the Dinara peak at .
Thousands of islands are part of Croatia.
48 have people living there year round.
The largest islands are Cres and Krk.
Major rivers are the Sava, Drava, Kupa and Danube.
There are many deep caves in Croatia.
49 of which are deeper than .
Croatia's most famous lakes are the Plitvice lakes.
Most of Croatia has a moderately warm and rainy continental climate.
Average temperature ranges between  (in January) and  (in July).
The coldest parts of the country are Lika and Gorski Kotar.
The warmest are at the Adriatic coast.
There are several ecoregions in Croatia.
The coastline, forests, mountains, and rivers give Croatia diverse flora and fauna.
There are more than a thousand endemic species.
There are 444 protected areas of Croatia.
Those include eight national parks, two strict reserves, and ten nature parks.
The oldest national park in Croatia is the Plitvice Lakes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Croatia adopted its constitution in 1990.
It declared independence from Yugoslavia on 8 October 1991.
The President of the Republic is the head of state.
The President is directly elected to a five-year term.
The Constitution limits the President to a maximum of two terms.
Zoran Milanović became president in 2020.
The Prime Minister of Croatia is the head of government.
Since 2016, the prime minister of the government is Andrej Plenković.
Croatia is one of the richest countries of the Balkan Peninsula and of the former Yugoslavia's countries.
But Croatia had also the highest cost prices of the whole Central Europe.
The average monthly salary/wages in Croatia standing on 739 euro or nearly $1000 USD.
Education is free and required until the child reaches the age of 15.
Many choose to continue their studies in high school until the age of 18.
After the war that devastated the country, Croatia has rebuilt its infrastructure, revitalizing its image as a Mediterranean country with crystal clear waters, medieval cities that mix western and eastern architecture, respect for the environment and traditions with the arrival of tourism.
Dubrovnik has become the most characteristic symbol of this new Croatia that is strongly committed to European tourism.
It is developing a type of tourism based on sustainability, in which culture, gastronomy and nature coexist with the visitor, offering them the experience of discovering Croatia as part of it.
There are many reasons to visit Croatia.
Its six UNESCO World Heritage sites : Dubrovnik's Old Town (undoubtedly one of the most beautiful cities in Europe), the Diocletian's Palace in Split , the historic core of Trogir , the Cathedral of St. James of Sibenik , the Plitvice Lakes National Park , or the Episcopal Ensemble of the Euphrasian Basilica in the Historic Center of Porec (Istria) .
Nature is another attractive source of tourism in Croatia.
Its eight National Parks and ten Natural Parks with their varied fauna and flora show all their splendor, with a coastline that winds from the Istria Peninsula to the south of Dalmatia, leaving beautiful coves, beaches, and cliffs.
The islands, such as Hvar or Korcula , in Dalmatia or Rab and Losinj in Kvarner Bay , which are sometimes grouped together in archipelagos as interesting as those of Brijuni or Kornati, they host millions of tourists who seek peace or the possibility of practicing nudism, so associated with Croatia, in its crystalline waters.
More than a thousand islands and islets that make up the Adriatic Coast, a paradise for those who love sailing and seek to cross the Adriatic by Sailboat .
The Croatian government's official website @ vlada.hr
Basic facts, website of the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Croatian National Tourist Board
General information about Croatia
El Alamein is a town in Egypt.
It is most famous for being the place where the British-led Allies won the Second Battle of El Alamein against the Nazis during World War II.
The town has a railroad station, which was important to all of the battles that have happened there.
Cities in Egypt
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 - December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter.
He was an African American who was born in Dawson, Georgia.
He wrote and sang many popular songs.
He was killed in a plane crash at the age of 26 in Madison, Wisconsin.
Shortly after his death, his song "Sittin' on the Dock of The Bay", went to # 1 on the charts.
His music was magnificent and his songs moved many.
He was a great man and a talented artist.
1967 deaths
Important towns are (from north to south): Pforzheim, Calw, Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Freudenstadt, Horb, Villingen-Schwenningen, Titisee-Neustadt and Waldshut-Tiengen.
The Black Forest is quite popular for hiking, skiing and Nordic walking.
In Triberg, at the lake Titisee and in other places you can buy the famous cuckoo clocks.
A good way to get known to the Black Forest is to travel on the Deutsche Uhrenstraße, a "National Scenic Byway."
Black Forest image galleries
Information about Black Forest, Hotels, Wellness and more
Forests of Germany
Frankie Avalon (born Francis Thomas Avallone, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1939) is an American actor and singer.
He is best known for his starring roles in a series of beach movies in the 1960s.
He was known as a teen idol.
A celebrity chef is a chef who is well known for their cooking, kinds of food, and style of preparation.
Many celebrity chefs become famous through television appearances, publishing cookbooks, or having their own restaurant.
Gino D'Acampo
Rocco Despirito
Lisa Faulkner
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
The Frugal Gourmet (Jeff Smith)
Ken Hom
Graham Kerr (The Galloping Gourmet)
Emeril Legasse
Delia Smith
Rick Stein
Phil Vickery
Marco Pierre White
Historical celebrity chefs
Carême
Fanny Cradock
The Two Fat Ladies (Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright)
Henry "Huntz" Hall (August 15 1919 - January 30 1999) was a well-known American actor.
He was best known as Dippy in the Dead End Kids series.
He made 78 movies.
He is one of the famous people who appeared on the cover of The Beatles, Sgt.
Sir Robert Peel (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850) was a British politician.
He established many well-known laws in Britain including the police force and had a brief term as Prime Minister.
In  1834, he founded the Conservative party out of the old Tory party which was founded in 1678.
Peel was a very clever politician in his own right.
However, his conviction led eventually led him to go against his party in 1846 by repealing the Corn Laws, following this the party split and were not able to win a majority for 28 years.
In 1835 he published the Tamworth Manifesto, which told people how he wanted the government to be run.
He came to power in 1841, defeating the Whig government of Lord Melbourne, and ruled the country until 1846.
During this time, Peel's popularity with other party members became lower because many of them thought he was too proud, and disliked the way he changed his mind over many important issues, often without telling them first.
The defeat of his Conservative Party in 1846 was followed by a brief period in the House of Commons until his death in 1851, in a horse riding accident.
Peel is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of The Beatles Sgt.
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1850 deaths
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Herodotus ( ; , ;  ) was an Ancient Greek historian.
He was born in Halicarnassus, a town in south-west Asia Minor (now Bodrum, Turkey)
Herodotus was called the "Father of History" by Cicero.
He wrote about the ancient empires of Babylon, Egypt, and Persia, and about the Ancient Greeks.
During his life, Herodotus probably told his stories in front of large numbers of people in Greek cities.
Some men at the time did this for pay.
He is now most famous for his writings about the wars between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states.
He told the story from the Greek side, although the war was mostly finished when he was still a child.
In his books, Herodotus tells us that he travelled a lot.
He says that he went to what is now Italy (including Sicily), Ukraine, Egypt and Pakistan.
He may also have travelled to Babylon in today's Iraq.
He often used stories from people he met to write about other places and happenings.
Some people think that Herodotus wrote about things that were not true.
That is possible, because he would have relied on information from various sources.
His work is important because there is very little writing on these subjects before his works.
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A chinook is a warm westerly wind that sometimes flows over Canada's Rocky Mountains in the winter.
It can raise temperatures in southern Alberta by twenty or thirty degrees in an hour.
A chinook is caused when air flowing off the Pacific Ocean is raised by the mountains and heated as the water vapor in the air condenses.
Then it is warmed more as it flows down the other side of the mountains and is compressed.
It flows out over the prairie, and may travel as far as the eastern border of Alberta if it is especially strong.
The chinook is also called "snow eater", because it can melt snow so quickly.
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Recently, there were four outbreaks of the Ebola virus in Etoumbi.
Some people think this is because the people that live there ate some dead animals from the forest.
In 2003, 120 people died in an outbreak.
Because of an outbreak in May, 2005 nobody was allowed in or out of the town.
Multimap: Map of Etoumbi
Towns in Africa
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Chad (; , officially called the Republic of Chad), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.
The capital is N'Djamena.
It was a French colony until 1960.
It suffers from poverty, illness, drought, and armed conflicts.
In 2011, the population of Chad was 11,535,000.
Arabic and French are the official languages.
Islam and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions.
Chad has one of the highest levels of hunger in the world.
Food insecurity is common in the country.
80% live in total poverty on less than a dollar a day, and 90% are unemployed in Chad.
Chad has a low life expectancy.
Life expectancy is 54 years old in Chad.
Chad is home to 134 kinds of mammals, 141 bird species, 52 kinds of reptiles, 30 amphibians and 130 kinds of fish.
Many animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, warthogs, giraffes, antelopes, lions, leopards, and cheetahs live in Chad.
Chad is the world's 21st-largest country.
It is slightly smaller than Peru and slightly larger than South Africa.
To the north is Libya, to the south is the Central African Republic, to the east is Sudan, and to the west are Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger.
The country's capital is  from the nearest seaport Douala, Cameroon.
Due to this distance from the sea and the country's largely desert climate, Chad is sometimes called the "Dead Heart of Africa".
Lake Chad is the largest wetland in Chad and the second largest in Africa.
Lake Chad was  7000 years ago.
Now it is .
Chad's highest peak is the Emi Koussi in the Sahara.
The region's tall grasses and large amount of marshes make it good for birds, reptiles, and large mammals.
Chad's major rivers are the Chari and Logone.
Since 2002, the Republic of Chad has been divided into regions.
It was previously divided into prefectures, and then departments.
ad since 2012
N'Djamena - 704,200
Moundou - 136,900
Sarh - 100,100
Abéché - 72,500
Kélo - 41,500