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Until the End of the World Vinyl (2002)
Suffer in Silence (2002)
Suffer in Silence Trance Remixes (2002)
Suffer in Silence 12" (2002)
In This Together (2005)
Shine On (2006)
Love to Blame (2006)
Cambodia (2006)
Green Queen (2008)
Apollo (Live on Your TV) (2009)
Major Tom (2013)
Deep Red 7" (2019)
DVDs and VHS
The Harmonizer DVD (2004)
Imagine There`s no Lennon DVD (2010)
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VNV Nation are an electronic music band originally from Wexford and London, now based in Hamburg, that combines elements of trance, synthpop and electronic body music (EBM), into what they call futurepop.
Earlier works also include some electro-industrial influences.
The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson.
Origin of their name
The "VNV" in the name stands for Victory, not Vengeance, in keeping with the group's motto, "One should strive to achieve; not sit in bitter regret."
Advance and Follow – (CD Album) 1995 - Energy Rekords
Praise the Fallen – (CD Album) 1998 - Energy Rekords, Off Beat • (CD Album) 1999 - Wax Trax!,
TVT Records • (CD Album) 2000 - Metropolis
Empires – (CD Album) 1999 - Metropolis, Energy Rekords, Dependent Records • (CD Album) 2000 - Metropolis
Futureperfect – (CD Album) 2002 - Dependent Records, Metropolis, Energy Rekords
Matter + Form – (CD Album) 2005 - Anachron Sounds, Metropolis, SubSpace Communications
Judgement – (CD Album) 2007 - Anachron Sounds, Metropolis, SubSpace Communications • (CD, Promo, Enhanced) 2007 - Anachron Sounds • (CD, Promo) 2007 - Anachron Sounds, SubSpace Communications
Body Pulse – (12") 1990 - no label
Strength of Youth – (12") 1990 - no label
Solitary EP – (CD EP) 1998 - Energy Rekord, Off Beat • (CD EP) 1999 - Dependent Records
Darkangel – (CD Maxi) 1999 - Dependent Records • (AAC File) 1999 - Metropolis
Burning Empires/Standing – (2xCD, Ltd Edition [4700 copies]) 2000 - Dependent Records • (AAC File) 2006 - Metropolis
Advance and Follow (v2) – (CD Album, Remastered, Reissue) 2001 - Dependent Records • (AAC File) 2006 - Metropolis
Cold – (Rated 'R' Mix by Mig-29) – (MP3 File) 2001 - no label
Standing – (CD Maxi) 2000 - Metropolis, Dependent Records
Genesis (Radio Edition) (CD Maxi, Ltd. Edition, Promo) 2001 - Dependent Records
Genesis.0 – (CD Maxi, Promo) 2001 - Dependent Records
Genesis.1 – (CD Maxi) 2001 - Dependent Records, Metropolis
Genesis.2 – (CD Maxi) 2001 - Dependent Records, Metropolis
Beloved – (CD Maxi, Promo) 2002 - Dependent Records
Beloved (Hiver and Hammer Mixes) – (12") 2002 - 3 Lanka
Beloved.1 – (CD Maxi) 2002 - Dependent Records • (AAC File) 2006 - Metropolis
Beloved.2 – (CD Maxi) 2002 - Dependent Records • (AAC File) 2006 - Metropolis
Honour 2003 – (CD Maxi, Enhanced) 2003 - Anachron Sounds • (AAC File) 2003 - Metropolis
Pastperfect – (2xDVD + CD-ROM Special Edition) 2004 - Anachron Sounds, Metropolis • (2xDVD) 2004 - Anachron Sounds
Chrome/Matter + Form – (CD, Promo) 2005 - Anachron Sounds
Chrome – (MP3 File) 2005 - Anachron Sounds, Metropolis, SubSpace Communications • (CDr, Promo) 2005 - SubSpace Communications
Synth-pop is a subgenre of pop music in which the synthesizer is the main musical instrument.
An electronic music genre, synthpop is additionally influenced by rock genres such as New Wave music and punk rock, as well as disco  music.
It is most closely associated with the era between the late 1970s and early to middle 1980s, although it has continued to exist and develop ever since.
id:Synthpop
Futurepop is a type of electronic dance music which uses influences from the genre synthpop (like song structure and vocal style), uplifting trance (grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies), and EBM.
The name was created by Ronan Harris (of VNV Nation) and Stephan Groth (of Apoptygma Berzerk) while trying to describe the style of music their bands produced.
Blutengel () are a German futurepop musical group with a gothic appearance.
Blutengel was formed in 1998 by singer Chris Pohl (also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label) after he had decided to give up the preceding project, Seelenkrank (which had released two albums), due to contractual problems.
The lyrics are written primarily in German and English and are presented with male and female vocals.
1999: Child of Glass(Album)|Child of Glass
2001: Seelenschmerz
2002: Angel Dust
2004: Demon Kiss
2007: Labyrinth
2009: Schwarzes Eis
2011: Tränenherz
2013: Monument
Seelenschmerz, Angel Dust, Demon Kiss and Labyrinth come with a hard-box limited edition including a bonus CD and exclusive booklet, sticker and post cards.
2005: The Oxidising Angel EP
2009: Soultaker
2011: Nachtbringer
2005: Live Lines
2008: Moments Of Our Lives
2012: Tränenherz Live
2001: Bloody Pleasures
2001: Black Roses
2002: Vampire Romance
2003: Forever
2004: Mein Babylon (Stendal Blast & Blutengel)
2004: No Eternity
2006: My Saviour
2007: Lucifer (Purgatory)
2007: Lucifer (Blaze)
2008: Winter Of My Life (Download Single)
2008: Dancing In The Light (Forsaken)
2008: Dancing In The Light (Solitary)
2010: Promised Land
2010: Reich mir die Hand
2011: Über Den Horizont
2012: Save Our Souls
2013: You Walk Away
2013: Kinder dieser Stadt
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The Host is a 2008 science-fiction/romance book by Stephenie Meyer.
A movie based on the book is currently in development.
Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away.
The earth has been invaded by a species that takes over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.
Wanderer, the invading ‘soul’ who has been given Melanie’s body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too-vivid memories.
But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn’t expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.
Melanie fills Wanderer’s thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves – Jared, a human who still lives in hiding.
Unable to separate herself from her body’s desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she’s never met.
As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.
Wanderer (Wanda) - An alien "soul" who is placed in the body of Melanie Stryder.
Melanie Stryder - Wanderer's strong-minded host.
Jared Howe - Melanie's true love.
Ian O'Shea - A surviving human who falls in love with Wanderer.
Jeb - Melanie's uncle, who owns the caverns that hide the human rebels.
He is generally good-natured and relaxed, but is really a very perceptive man.
Jamie - Melanie's younger brother who also develops a friendly relationship with Wanda.
Kyle O'Shea - Ian O'Shea's brother who tries to murder Wanda several times during the novel
Doc - the doctor who is among the rebel humans who is very compassionate and caring.
His real name is Eustace
Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900  July 11, 1962) was a Russian-born madam (owner-manager of a brothel) of Jewish descent.
Adler was born in Ivanava (nowadays Belarus).
She opened her first bordello in 1920, under the protection of mobster Dutch Schultz and a friend of mobster Charles "Lucky" Luciano.
One building she used was The Majestic at 215 West 75th Street, designed by architects Schwartz and Gross and completed in 1924 with hidden stairways and secret doorways.
Her brothel there boasted such patrons as Robert Benchley, New York City mayor Jimmy Walker, and Dutch Schultz.
A House is Not a Home was a 1953 book of Polly Adler's life that was ghosted (written anonymously) by Virginia Faulkner.
The 1989 Perry Mason TV-movie Musical Murder revolved around a faux-musical based on Adler.
Brothel owners and madams
Jewish American criminals
Kitty Hawk, is an area of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Kitty Hawk Air Society, an Honor Society for the Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program
Kitty Hawk Aircargo, an American cargo airline based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
Kitty Hawk Airways, an American airline based at Dallas Love Field near Dallas in Dallas County, Texas
USS Kitty Hawk, ships of the United States Navy
Curtiss P-40 Kitty Hawk, a U.S. World War II fighter aircraft
IBM Kittyhawk, 2008 supercomputer designed by IBM to run entire Internet.
HP Kittyhawk microdrive, hard disk drive made by Hewlett Packard
Morse code is an old system of encoding messages that is used to send telegraphic information using signals and rhythm.
In written communication,  Morse code uses dots and dashes to represent a limited number of alphabet letters, numbers, punctuation and special characters of a given message.
When messages are sent by sound, radio signals or light flashes, dots are short beeps or clicks or flashes, and dashes are longer ones.
Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, who helped invent it.
It is not used as much today as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Teletypewriters were invented in the early 20th century with their own codes and gradually replaced Morse code.
Other types of technology that are easier to use for communication became even more common.
Some amateur radio operators still use Morse code to communicate and were previously required to learn and pass telegraphy exams to qualify their licenses.
The requirements were lifted after 2003.
There are three different symbols in Morse code; there's a short one, usually called 'dit', a long one, called 'dah', and the pause.
A dah is three times as long as a dit, and the pause has the same length as the dit.
Today, Morse codes can be easily generated through smartphone applications or through a web application, which take text as input and outputs the Morse code in copyable text or downloadable audio form.
Its usage as a method of sending secret messages has become obsolete in favor of more powerful encryption techniques provided by advanced modern computer machines.
Different ways to send Morse code
Morse code can be sent in different ways.
On ships, flickering lights were often used instead of radio communication.
The history of the S.O.S
The S.O.S as it is used today, was introduced by the Imperial German Marine in 1904.
It was mandatory for all German ships starting in 1905.
It was meant as a distress signal, and should be repeated until all other stations stopped sending.
Afterwards the real message would be sent.
Also, there is no pause between the characters.
At the time, the market was controlled by two companies; one was Telefunken, and the other was Marconi.
Marconi was under British control, Telefunken was German.
Marconi used CQD as a distress signal.
The people doing the communication were employees of either Marconi or Telefunken; they were not employed by the ships' owners.
These operators were not allowed to answer calls sent by the competing company, which also included distress signals.
As this was against the laws of the sea, a conference in Berlin decided to use the German distress signal internationally.
This started in 1908.
When the ship Republic sent a distress signal in 1909, it was still CQD, and the Titanic also sent CQD at first, in 1912.
Replacing the S.O.S signal
The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is a satellite-based system that was introduced in 1999 to handle distress situations.
It defines four different regions, three of which are covered by satellite.
The fourth, which covers the polar regions, is covered by shortwave radio.
With the introduction of GMDSS, the S.O.S signal is no longer used.
Chives are herbs which are related to the onion.
Its leaves are used for flavoring.
Nutritional Information
Mrs. Grieve's "A Modern Herbal" @ Botanical.com
Chives, history, clutivation, container growing and a recipe
The Premier of New South Wales is the leader of the New South Wales government.
He or she is the most powerful politician in the Australian state of New South Wales.
The current Premier is Dominic Perrottet from the Liberal Party.
List of Premiers of New South Wales
* Askin's given name was Robin but he changed it legally to Robert in 1971, prior to being knighted in 1972.
Before then, he was generally known as Bob.
is a motocross racing video game series made by Nintendo.
It first appeared as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 for a price of 5000 yen.
It is the first game in the Excite series.
The second game in the series is Excitebike 64 and the third is Excite Truck.
In 2011, a re-release of Excitebike called 3D Classics: Excitebike was released for the Nintendo 3DS.
It is a 3D version of the original game.
Excitebike at StrategyWiki
Morris Iemma (born 21 July 1961) was the 40th Premier of New South Wales from 3 August 2005 to 5 September 2008.
Iemma, Morris
Lukáčovce is a village and in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia.
The houbara bustard (Chlamydotis undulata), also known as the African houbara, is a large bird in the bustard family.
It breeds in the Canary Islands, North Africa, Iran and western Pakistan.
The Sindh Ibex or Turkman Wild Goat (Capra aegagrus blythi) is a vulnerable wild goat native to Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan Pakistan within Pakistan it is the Provincial animal of Sindh.
It grows at 1,600-4,900 m altitude.
It is the provincial tree of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (unofficial).
The rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) also known as the ring-necked parakeet, is a tropical species of bird, with a wide range in Africa and  south Asia (the Indian subcontinent).
The adult male has a red or black neck ring and the hen and immature birds of both sexes show little or no neck rings.
Both sexes have a distinctive green colour.
Rose-ringed parakeets measure on average  in length, including the tail feathers, a large portion of their total length.
Their average single-wing length is about .
In the wild, this is a noisy species with an unmistakable squawk.
Captive birds can be taught to speak.
It is herbivorous and not migratory.
Saludos Amigos is a 1942 movie that takes place in Latin America, produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
The sixth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, it is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one.
It also features the first appearance of José Carioca.
Saludos Amigos was popular enough for a sequel, The Three Caballeros, to be produced two years later.
The movie premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942.
It was released in the United States on February 6, 1943.
It got mixed reviews and was only rereleased once, in 1949, when it was shown on a double bill with the first rerelease of Dumbo.
Its title in Spanish means, "Hello, Friends".
This was the first Disney animated feature to be shown in South America before it was shown in the USA.
At 42 minutes, this is the shortest Disney feature to date.
The movie features four different parts, or segments.
Each of them begin with different clips of the Disney artists roaming the country drawing cartoons of some of the local cultures and scenery:
In Lake Titicaca, American tourist Donald Duck visits the Lake Titicaca and meets with some of the local yokels, including a llama.
Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with almost disastrous results.
In El Gaucho Goofy, American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Uruguayan pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho.
This segment was later edited for the movie's video release, to get rid of one scene of Goofy smoking a cigarette.
Aquarela do Brasil (or "Watercolor of Brazil"), the finale of the movie, involves a brand-new character, José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba (to the tunes of "Brazil" and "Tico-Tico no Fubá").
Lee Blair - Himself
Mary Blair - Herself
Pinto Colvig - Goofy
Walt Disney - Himself
Norman Ferguson - Himself
Frank Graham - Himself
Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
José Oliveira - José Carioca
Fred Shields - Narrator
Frank Thomas - Himself
Worldwide release dates
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Japanese: ラテン・アメリカの旅 (Raten Amerika no Tabi, Journey to the Latin America)
Ghar Kab Ao Gey is a Pakistani Urdu language movie directed by Iqbal Kashmiri.
It was released in theaters across Pakistan in Eid-ul-Fittar on January 9, 2000.
Tere Pyar Mein (, In Your Love) is a Pakistani movie which was released in December 2000.
It launched the career of Zara Sheikh in Lollywood.
Electronic body music (EBM, also known as aggropop) is a music genre that mixes together parts of industrial music and electronic dance music.
It first became popular in Belgium.
Industrial music
The Birthday Massacre is a synthpop band, based in Toronto, Canada.
The band was officially formed in 1999, known at that time as Imagica, a name taken from a novel by Clive Barker called Imajica.
In 2001 they changed their name to The Birthday Massacre.
They have released 5 studio albums and they announced in January 2013 that they are working on a 6th album.
In 2013 they did a tour with Emilie Autumn.
In 2014 The Birthday Massacre will release their sixth album.
In 2002 The Birthday Massacre released their first album, Nothing and Nowhere.
In 2005 Violet was released.
Walking with Strangers was released in 2007.
During the spring and summer of 2009, the band went on tour with bands I Am Ghost and Dommin in North America and Europe.
Chibi - Vocals (1999-present)
Rainbow - Guitar and Programming (1999-present)
Michael Falcore - Guitar (1999-present)
Rhim - Drums (2003-Present)
O-en - Keyboards (2004-present)
Nate Manor – bass (2010-present)
Dank - Keyboards (2000-2001)
Aslan - Bass (2000-2007)
Adm - Keyboards (2002-2004)
Brett Carruthers (2004)
O.E. - Drums (2001-2003), Bass (2007-2010)
Demo 1 (2000) (as Imagica)
Demo 2 (2001) (as Imagica)
Nothing and Nowhere (2002)
Violet (2004)
Walking with Strangers (2007)
Looking Glass EP (2008)
Pins and Needles (2010)
Hide and Seek (2012)
Blue (2005)
""Live Bootleg DVD"" (2006)
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, movie director and visual artist.
He was born in Liverpool.
(1985) The Damnation Game
(1986) The Hellbound Heart
(1987) Weaveworld
(1988) Cabal
(1989) The Great and Secret Show (first "Book of the Art")
(1991) Imajica
(1992) The Thief of Always
(1994) Everville (second "Book of the Art")
(1996) Sacrament
(1998) Galilee
(2001) Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story
(2001) Tortured Souls (novelette)
(2002) Abarat (first book of the Abarat Quintet)
(2004) Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War (second book of the Abarat Quintet)
(2007) Mister B. Gone (2008) Absolute Midnight (third book of the Abarat Quintet)
(2008) The Scarlet Gospels''
(1973) Salome
(1978) The Forbidden
(1987) Hellraiser
(1990) Nightbreed
(1995) Lord of Illusions
(2009) Tortured Souls: Animae Damnatae
Produced
(1988) Hellbound: Hellraiser II
(1992) Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
(1992) Candyman
(2006) The Plague
(2008) The Midnight Meat Train
(2008) Born (pre-production)
(2009) Clive Barker Presents Hellraiser (pre-production)
(1986) Rawhead Rex
(1987) Transmutations
(2008) Book of Blood (post-production)
Hellraiser is a 1987 British horror movie exploring the themes of sadomasochism, pain as a source of pleasure, and morality under duress and fear.
It is based on the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the movie.
Hellraiser was number 19 on the cable channel Bravo's list of the 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
This movie had a sequel, Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
1987 horror movies
es:Hellraiser
Sesame (Sesamum indicum) is a flowering plant in the genus Sesamum.
It grows to a height of 2-3 feet.
Sesame, Sesamum indicum, is the source of sesame seeds.
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis)  is a species of monitor lizard that lives in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rincah, Flores, Gili Motang, and Gili Dasami.
It is the largest living lizard.
They grow to an average length of 2–3 meters (approximately 6.5–10 ft) and weigh around 70 kg (154 pounds).
Komodo dragon bites can be very dangerous, and they sometimes attack people.
Western scientists first saw Komodo dragons in 1910.
They are very popular animals in zoos because they are very big and look scary.
The lizards are in some danger.
There are very few Komodo dragons still alive on their home islands.
Indonesian law does not allow hunting these lizards.
Komodo National Park was made to help protect Komodo dragons.
The Komodo dragon has other names.
It can also be called the Komodo monitor or the Komodo Island monitor by some scientists, but this is not very common.
The people who live in Komodo Island call them ora,  buaja durat (land crocodile) or biawak raksasa (giant monitor).
The Komodo dragon is cold-blooded.
Its tail is as long as its body.
It has about 60 sharp teeth that can grow up to 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) long.
It also has a long, yellow, forked tongue.
Its skin can be blue, orange, green, gray, or brown.
Its saliva is red because its gums almost completely cover its teeth.
When they eat, their teeth cut their gums and make them bleed.
This creates a good environment for the dangerous bacteria that live in its mouth.
People used to think they were very big because there are no other large, meat-eating animals on the islands where they live.
Therefore they did not have to compete with other similar animals for the same food and places to live.
People also thought they were big because of their low metabolic rate.
However, facts are different.
The fossil record shows that the Komodo is the last of a group of lizards called varanids.
These lizards have been about the same size for nearly a million years.
They had their origin in Australia nearly four million years ago, and spread later to much of Indonesia.
Their size has nothing to do with being on a relatively small island.
The Komodo dragon's earholes are easy to see, but Komodo dragons are not very good at hearing.
It is able to see as far away as 300 meters (985 feet), but it is thought to have poor night vision.
The Komodo dragon is able to see in color, but has trouble seeing objects that do not move.
The Komodo dragon uses its tongue to taste and smell like many other reptiles.
They have a special part of the body called the Jacobson's organ for smelling.
With the help of a good wind, they can smell dead animals from 4–9.5 kilometres (2.5–6 mi) away.
The Komodo dragon's nostrils are not very useful for smelling, because it does not have a diaphragm.
It only has a few taste buds in the back of its throat.
Its scales have special connections to nerves that give the lizard a sense of touch.
The scales around its ears, lips, chin, and bottoms of the feet may have three or more of these connections.
Komodo dragons have dangerous bacteria in their saliva.
Scientists have identified 57 of them.
One of the most dangerous bacteria in Komodo dragon saliva appears to be a kind of Pasteurella multocida.
These bacteria cause disease in the blood of their victim.
If a bite does not kill an animal and it escapes, it will usually die within a week from infection.
The Komodo dragon seems to never get sick from its own bacteria.
So, researchers have been looking for the lizard's antibacterial.
This may be used as medicine for humans.
In addition to the deadly bacteria, the Komodo dragon has venom glands in its lower jaws which match the potency of the inland taipan, a venomous snake.
The venom acts as a blood thinner, and will cause death by heart failure and massive internal bleeding in as little as 30 minutes.
Mating begins between May and August, and the eggs are laid in September.
Dragons leave about twenty eggs in empty nests left by birds called megapodes.
The eggs develop for seven to eight months.
The eggs open and the baby lizards come out in April, when there are many insects to eat.
Young Komodo dragons live in trees, where they are safe from adult Komodo dragons and other animals that might eat them.
They take around three to five years to mature and may live as long as fifty years.
Female Komodo dragons can have babies without fertilisation (parthenogenesis).
The Komodo dragon likes hot and dry places and lives in dry open grassland, savanna, and tropical forest on lower land.
It is most active in the day because it is cold-blooded, although it is sometimes active at night.
Komodo dragons live alone.
They come together only to breed and eat.
They can run up to 20 kilometers per hour (12.4 mph), dive up to 4.5 metres (15 ft) at top speed for short periods of time.
When they are young, they climb trees with their strong claws.
As the Komodo dragon grows bigger, its claws are used mostly as weapons, because it is too big to climb trees well.
The Komodo dragon digs holes for protection with its powerful legs and claws.
These holes can be from 1–3 metres (3–10 ft) wide.
Because it is very big and sleeps in holes, it is able to keep itself warm through the night.
The Komodo dragon usually hunts in the afternoon, but stays in the shade during the hottest part of the day.
Komodo dragons have special resting places on ridges that catch cool sea breezes.
Komodo dragons are carnivores, which means that they eat meat.
Although they eat mostly dead animals they will also catch live animals as prey.
When prey goes by a Komodo dragon, it will suddenly charge at the animal and bite or claw the belly or the throat.
To catch animals that are up high and out of reach, the Komodo dragon may stand on its back legs and use its tail as a support.
Komodo dragons do not chew their food.
They eat by biting and pulling off large chunks of flesh and swallowing them whole.
They can swallow smaller prey, up to the size of a goat, whole.
This is because they have flexible jaws and skulls, and their  stomachs can expand.
Komodo dragons make much saliva to help the food move easily, but swallowing still takes a long time (15–20 minutes to swallow a goat).
Komodo dragons may try to swallow faster by running and pushing the dead animal in its mouth very hard against a tree.
Sometimes a lizard hits the tree so hard that it gets knocked out.
Dragons breathe using a small tube under the tongue that connects to the lungs.
This allows it to continue breathing even while swallowing large things.
Komodo dragons can eat up to 80 percent of its body weight in one meal.
After swallowing its food, it drags itself to a sunny place to speed up digestion so the food does not rot and poison the dragon.
Large dragons can survive on as little as 12 meals a year.
After digestion, the Komodo dragon vomits the horns, hair, and teeth of the animal it ate.
This vomit is covered in a smelly mucus.
After vomiting, it rubs its face in the dirt or on bushes to get rid of the mucus.
This suggests that komodo dragons dislike the smell, just like humans do.
The largest animals usually eat first, while the smaller ones eat later.
Dragons of equal size may wrestle each other.
Losers usually run away, although sometimes they are chased and eaten by the winners.
The Komodo dragon's diet includes invertebrates, other reptiles (including smaller Komodo dragons), birds, bird eggs, small mammals, monkeys, wild boars, goats, deer, horses, and water buffalo.
Young Komodo dragons will eat insects, eggs, geckoes, and small mammals.
Komodo dragons may eat people and, they can even dig up bodies from their graves to eat them.
Therefore, people on Komodo Island moved their graves from sandy to clay ground and piled rocks on top to stop the lizards from digging up dead bodies.
Because the Komodo dragon does not have a diaphragm, it cannot suck water when drinking.
It cannot lap water with its tongue either.
Instead, it drinks by taking a mouthful of water, lifting its head, and letting the water run down its throat.
Recent fossils from Queensland suggests that the Komodo dragon evolved in Australia before spreading to Indonesia.
Its body size remained stable on Flores, ever since the islands were isolated by rising sea levels, about 900,000 years ago.
The sea level dropped very low during the last ice age and uncovered wide areas of continental shelf.
The Komodo dragon spread into these areas.
They became isolated on the islands where they live today when sea levels rose again.
They moved into what is now the Indonesian island group.
They spread as far east as the island of Timor.
Komodo dragons and people
Komodo dragons have been popular in zoos for a long time.
However, there are few of them in zoos because they may become sick and do not have babies easily.
As of May 2009, there are 13 European, 2 African, 35 North American, 1 Singaporean, and 2 Australian institutions that keep Komodo dragons.
A Komodo dragon was shown in a zoo for the first time in 1934 at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.
But, it lived for only two years.
People continued to try to keep Komodo dragons in zoos, but the lives of these creatures was very short.
The average life of a dragon in a zoo was five years in the National Zoological Park.
Walter Auffenberg studied the dragons in zoos and eventually helped zoos to keep dragons more successfully.
Many dragons in zoos may become tamer than wild lizards within a short period of time in a zoo.
Many zoo keepers have brought the animals out of their cages to meet visitors without any problems.
Dragons can also recognize individual humans.
However, even dragons that seem tame may surprise people and become aggressive.
This can often happen when a stranger enters the animal's home.
Research with captive Komodo dragons has shown that they play.
One dragon would push a shovel left and seemed attracted to the sound of it moving across rocks.
A young female dragon at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. would grab and shake things like statues, drink cans, plastic rings, and blankets.
She would also put her head in boxes, shoes, and other objects.
She did not make a mistake and think these objects were food; she would only swallow them if they were covered in rat blood.
Komodo dragons do not attack humans very often.
However, they do sometimes hurt or kill people.
In June 2001, a Komodo dragon seriously hurt Phil Bronstein—executive editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Bronstein had entered the dragon's cage at the Los Angeles Zoo after being invited in by its keeper.
The zoo keeper had told him to take off his white shoes, which could have excited the Komodo dragon.
Bronstein was bitten on his bare foot.
Although he escaped, he needed surgery to repair his foot.
On June 4, 2007, a Komodo dragon attacked an eight-year-old boy on Komodo Island.
The boy later died because he lost too much blood.
This was the first time that people know a dragon had killed a human in 33 years.
Local people blamed the attack on environmentalists.
People from outside the island had stopped local people from killing goats and leaving them for the dragons.
The Komodo dragons no longer found the food they needed, so they came into places where humans lived in search of food.
Many natives of Komodo Island believe that Komodo dragons are actually the reincarnation of relatives and should be treated with respect.
On March 24, 2009, two Komodo dragons attacked and killed fisherman Muhamad Anwar on Komodo Island.
They attacked Anwar after he fell out of a sugar-apple tree.
He was bleeding badly from bites on his hands, body, legs, and neck.
He was taken to a clinic on the nearby island of Flores, but doctors said he was dead when he arrived.
Protecting Komodo dragons
There are very few Komodo dragons, and they may not survive.
The lizards are on the IUCN Red List of animals in danger.
Not many Komodo dragons still live on their home islands.
Komodo (1,701)
Rincah (1,300)
Gili Motang (100)
Gili Dasami (100)
Flores (ca.
2,000)
Padar (None–Extinct)
However, there may now be only 352 females having babies in the wild.
The Komodo National Park was founded in 1980 to protect the Komodo dragon on its home islands.
Megalania prisca - A huge, extinct monitor lizard
Other books about the Komodo dragon
The Singles 1992-2003 is a greatest hits album by the American alternative rock band No Doubt.
It was released on November 25, 2003 (the same day as Boom Box, a box set album by No Doubt.)
The album contained all of the singles the band had released at the time, except for "Squeal" and "Doghouse" (two singles from their album The Beacon Street Collection that never became popular.)
However, it also included two songs that were not singles: "Trapped in a Box" from their first album No Doubt, and a cover version of the song "It's My Life" by Talk Talk.
"Just a Girl"
"Hey Baby"
"Bathwater"
"Underneath It All"
"Excuse Me Mr."
"Spiderwebs"
"Simple Kind of Life"
"Don't Speak"
"Ex-Girlfriend"
"Trapped in a Box"
Nathan Kress was born in Glendale, California and resides in Southern California.
He acts on the hit Nickelodeon show iCarly as Freddie Benson.
When Kress was young, he would quote lines and monologues from television and perform for his family and friends.
He began modeling, acting and voiceover work at 3 years old.
At age 6, he took a break from acting, and at about age 10, asked his mom to begin homeschooling him so that he could pursue acting again.
He voiced the role of Eizan Kaburagi from Nickelodeon's animated series, Shuriken School.
He has also guest starred in The Suite Life of Zack and Cody as Jamie.
Kress has enjoyed playing dramatic roles in House, Standoff, and Without a Trace.
In early 2007, Nathan performed in a short film, Bag, for which he won a Jury Honorable Mention Award at the 168 Hour Film Festival for the role of Albert.
Bag also won the Festival award for Best Comedy.
On iCarly, Nathan's role is that of Freddie Benson, the technical producer for Carly's webshow, iCarly.
Freddie is a computer whiz kid who has a crush on Carly (Miranda Cosgrove) and an ongoing feud with Sam (Jennette McCurdy). "
It's weird," says Kress, "I have to pretend to love Carly and kiss Sam when actually we are just all really good friends."
He co-stars with Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, and Jerry Trainor on iCarly.
Television and film roles
Nathan Kress Profile
A monster truck is a vehicle usually styled after a pickup truck.
It is changed or purposely built with very big wheels and suspension.
Monster trucks are used for competition and popular entertainment.
The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy.
They are a "barnstorming" team, which means they travel around the world playing basketball in many different places.
Sometimes they play college or pro teams, but usually they play a team called the Washington Generals.
They were founded in 1925 in Chicago.
Almost all their players are African-American, which was unusual at the time of their founding (at that time, most professional basketball players were white).
In the 1930s and 1940s, they were one of the best basketball teams in the country, along with the New York Rens, another African-American basketball team.
By the 1950s, a lot of black players started playing in the NBA, and the Globetrobbers became a clown team.
The best-known Globetrotter is Meadowlark Lemon.
Wilt Chamberlain played for the Globetrotters for a while.
They were placed in the Basketball Hall of Fame as a team in 2001.
Burt Ward (born Bert John Gervis, Jr., on July 6, 1945) is an American television actor.
He is best known for his work as Robin, the "Boy Wonder," in the 1960s television series Batman.
In 1992 he wrote a book called “Burt Ward: My life in tights.”
Batman is a 1960s American television series, based on the DC comic book character Batman.
It aired on the ABC network for two and a half seasons from 1966 to 1968.
Even though it was on TV for such a short time, the series had two new episodes each week, giving the show a total of 120 episodes (the equivalent of roughly five regular seasons).
Adam West - Batman/Bruce Wayne - A caped crusader whose parents were murdered when he was a child.
Burt Ward - Robin/Dick Grayson - Batman's faithful partner and "boy wonder".
Alan Napier - Alfred - Batman's loyal butler.
Neil Hamilton - Commissioner James Worthington Gordon - Gotham City Commissioner of Police.
Stafford Repp - Chief Miles O'Hara - Gotham City Chief of Police.
Madge Blake - Aunt Harriet Cooper - Dick Grayson's maternal aunt.
Yvonne Craig - Batgirl/Barbara Gordon - Commissioner Gordon's daughter and Batman's partner (Season 3).
Byron Keith - Mayor John Linseed - Mayor of Gotham City (recurring).
William Dozier - "Desmond Doomsday," the Narrator
Cesar Romero --- aka Jack "The Joker" Napier
Burgess Meredith- aka Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot
Frank Gorshin   - aka Edward "The Riddler" Nygma  {also played by John Austin in one episode}
Julie Newmar   -  aka Shelia "The Catwoman" Caryle {also played by Eartha Kitt and Lee Meriweather}
Batmania UK :: 1966 Batman
Museum of Broadcast Communications
The 1966 Batman TV Tribute Site
The BatCave Fan Site
The Bat Pages Note: this website contains the original screentests of Adam West, Burt Ward, and Lyle Waggoner.
Batman: The Series @ Batman: Yesterday, Today, & Beyond
Batman: The Movie @ Batman: Yesterday, Today, & Beyond
BATMAN ON FILM
Television Obscurities - Batgirl Promotional Short
1966 television series debuts
Superhero television shows
A graduate school (or grad school) is a school that gives advanced academic degrees, such as Master's degrees (M.S. or M.B.A.) and Doctoral degrees (Ph.D. or L.L.D. or D.D.S. etc.).
A graduate student (or grad student) is a student who has earned a Bachelor's degree and is pursuing additional education in a specific field, though this is not always the case.
In British English, the term "postgraduate student" is more common.
The term "graduate school" could be confusing because the verb "graduate" is also used to mean completing high school education or earning a Bachelor's degree.
The verb is used for all those types of schools, but the meaning of the adjective "graduate" is changed to mean "postgraduate" in the term "graduate school".
The small change in meaning can be viewed with an air of sophistication, where experienced students are often more aware of the issue, while novice students might not be aware, as being more naive.
The SAT Reasoning Test (used to be called Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test) is a test for college admissions in the United States.
The SAT is owned, published, and created by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the United States, and was once owned by the Educational Testing Service (ETS).
ETS now administers the exam.
The SAT is usually taken by high school juniors and seniors.
The reading section comes first.
It is 65 minutes long, and has 52 questions.
Unlike on the pre-2016 SAT, there are no vocabulary words or sentences to fill in.
The writing section, which is 35 minutes long and has 44 questions, comes next.
It is similar to the old writing section.
The math section is split into two parts: one which lets students use calculators, and one which does not.
The no-calculator section comes before the calculator section, and has 20 problems to be finished in 25 minutes.
The calculator section has 38 problems to be done in 55 minutes.
Finally, the essay is 50 minutes long, but does not have to be taken by every student.
The new essay is based on analyzing a passage, instead of answering a question about life experiences.
Before 2005
On the old SAT administered before 2005, the top score was 1600.
The two sections were Critical Reading and Mathematics.
The scores in each area ranged from 200 to 800, 800 being the best score.
The two scores were added together.
From 2005 to 2016
From 2005 to 2016, the SAT had questions in three areas: Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing.
Writing included a new essay section.
The scores in each area go from 200 to 800, 800 being the best score.
The scores in the three areas are added up, for a score between 600 and 2400.
The average score is about 1500 in total.
Getting near the highest or lowest scores is rare.
The test had ten sections, with the essay always coming first.
There is also a section that is not scored.
College Board said:
The sections are mostly 25 minutes long, but the later sections start to get shorter, with fewer questions.
The whole test lasted 3 hours and 45 minutes.
Related tests
The NMSQT is the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
It's a qualifying test for the National Merit Scholarship Program.
The SAT Subject Tests were one hour long tests in mathematics, science, history, English, and foreign languages.
They were all multiple choice and scores ranged from 200 to 800 points.
No subject tests will be held after June 2021.
ACT (test), a college entrance exam, competitor to the SAT
SHSAT, a high school entrance exam in New York
SAT and SAT Subject Tests
Charles "Lucky" Luciano (born Salvatore Lucania; November 24, 1897 – January 26, 1962) was a Sicilian mobster.
Luciano is considered to have been the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the postwar expansion of the international heroin trade.
He was the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family.
Time magazine named Luciano among the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century.
Drug traffickers
The Genovese crime family is one of the "Five Families" that controls organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the Mafia (or Cosa Nostra).
The Genovese crime family has been nicknamed the "Ivy League" and "Rolls Royce" of organized crime.
Bosses of the Genovese crime family
1922–1931 – Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria (Boss, murdered in 1931 during the Castellammarese War)
1931–1946 – Salvatore 'Charlie "Lucky" Luciano' Lucania (Boss, jailed in 1936)
1936–1946 – Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello (acting boss)
1946–1957 – Frank "Frankie the Prime Minister" Costello (Boss, retired)
1957–1969 – Vito "Don Vito" Genovese (Boss, jailed 1959, died in prison in 1969)
Circa 1959–1972 – Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli (acting boss, turned front boss sometime in the mid 1960s, murdered 1972)
Circa 1965–1972 – Gerardo "Jerry" Catena (jailed 1970-72, retired 1973, died 2000 at age 98)
Circa 1965–1981 – Philip "Benny Squint" Lombardo (retired)
1972–1981 – Frank "Funzi" Tieri (acting boss, turned front boss sometime in the early 1970s by the family)
1981–1987 – Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno (front boss for Vincent Gigante, jailed 1987, died in prison)
1981–2005 – Vincent "Chin" Gigante (Boss, jailed 1997, died in prison of heart failure on December 19, 2005)
1990–1996 – Liborio "Barney" Bellomo (street boss, jailed)
1996–1998 – Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (street boss, steps down)
1997–2003 – Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello (acting boss, jailed)
2003–2005 – Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (acting boss, jailed)
2005–2006 – Mario Gigante (acting boss, possible in retirement after the death of his brother in 2005)
2006–2007 – Daniel "Danny the Lion" Leo (acting boss) (indicted May 31, 2007, remanded without bail before being sentenced to 5 years in prison in early 2008), Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano (underboss) (released from prison December, 2006 after serving 15 years), Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (consigliere) (Sentenced to 46 months on March 3, 2006), Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico (acting consigliere) (promoted prior to coping a plea and being sentenced to 4 1/2 years in early 2006)
2007–present – Paul "Paulie Stripes" DiMarco (alleged acting boss, next in line coming from the midwest?),
Venero "Benny Eggs" Mangano (underboss), Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo (consigliere?)
The ACT is an achievement test for college admissions in the United States made by ACT, Inc.  It was first given in Fall 1959 by Everett Franklin Lindquist as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test.
Some students who perform poorly on the SAT find that they perform better on the ACT and vice versa.
The ACT test is made of 4 tests: English, Math, Reading, and Science reasoning.
In February 2005, an optional writing test was added to the ACT, like changes to the SAT that took place later in March of the same year.
All four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. accept the ACT.
Global Assessment Certificate
SAT, the main competitor to ACT's examination
ACT, Inc.
Website for test takers
ACT Club
ACT Education Solutions
ACT International Services
The Pakistan Declaration (titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?)
was a pamphlet published in January 1933 by Choudhary Rahmat Ali in which the word Pakistan was used for the first time.
The pamphlet was written when Pakistan was part of British India.
The pamphlet asked that "the five Northern units of India"  - Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Afghan Province), Kashmir, Sindh and Baluchistan (or Pakstan) become an independent state and not part of India.
After the pamphlet was published the name of Pakistan became very popular and led to the Pakistan Movement.
Fourteen years after the pamphlet was published, in 1947, Pakistan became an independent state.
A pamphlet is a small book without a hard cover or binding.
It can be made up of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths (called a leaflet).
It can also be made up of a few pages that are folded in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book.
In order to count as a pamphlet, UNESCO requires the pamphlet to have 'at least 5 but not more than 48 pages' not including the cover page; a longer item is a book.
Pamphlets can contain anything, such as user instructions information for kitchen appliances, or religious and political ideas.
Pamphlets have been important in history, publishing a lot of pamphlets can help spread ideas, for instance during revolutions pamphlets were used to influence people.
A famous example is "Common Sense", a political pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775, which advocated for America's independence from Great Britain.
Because pamphlets are easy to produce and share, they can spread new ideas quickly.
Pamphlets are also important in advertising as they are cheap to produce and can be distributed easily to customers.
Pattaya (, ) is a city  in Thailand.
It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 165 km southeast of Bangkok.
In 2016, 65% of the tourists (coming to the city) where foreigners.
Of foreigners there were most Chinese, followed by Russians, and then by Koreans, and then by Indians, and then by Germans.
Vernon Chatman (born October 31, 1972) is an Emmy Award winning American television producer, writer, voice actor, comedian and musician.
He is best known as the voice of "Towelie" on the cartoon series South Park.
Yasothon is a town in the Isan region of Thailand.
It is far from Bangkok about 500 km.
In the village people grow rice and houseplants.
The weather is very hot in the summer (more than other provinces) and the famous festival is Bang Fai Rocket Festival.
This festival is really beautiful, every year the visitor from all over the country come to visit this festival.
The festival features large home-made rockets, fireworks displays, parades and beauty contests.
Normally people have created the rockets for launched in to the sky; they believe that the god will send the planting season.
Thai food is a type of food that was first made in Thailand.
Thai food is often spicy, but does not have to be.
Thai food is shared with every person at the table.
The meal is not thrown away.
The Thai believe that throwing food away would anger the "god of rice".
Thai food is eaten with a fork and a large spoon.
Thai chicken and sweet potato soup
Lopburi is a province in the center of Thailand.
It is good farming land.
Lopburi has a long history.
It was first called La-vo.
Lopburi was settled during the Bronze Age.
The Khmer expanded their power in the area during the 10th century and ruled from the town of La-vo.
The administration of Lopburi is divided into 11 districts and 124 sub-districts.
The tourist attractions are Narainivech Palace, Narai National Museum, Pralarn shrine (famous for the monkeys that come out of the jungle), Pasakchonlasit dam, Mahatad temple, Lopburi's zoo, Indian pagoda's shrine, Lai temple, Vichayenn's house -it's the place where the royal government welcome the foreign envoys, and Vangkanleung's waterfall.
thumb | right | Map of Lopburi
Volkswagen Golf is a car produced by Volkswagen since 1974.
It entered its 8th generation in 2019.
Capparis decidua is commonly known as karir, kair, kirir, karril, Teent etc.
It is either a small tree with many branches or a shrub of the Thar desert and other hot and dry regions in southern Asia.
It has a lot of thin, leafless branches, the small  leaves being found only on young shoots.