the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Sora, the main character, flies on him and Dumbo splashes enemies with water from his trunk.
Titles in other languages
(Dumbo)
(xiǎo fēi xiàng, or Little Flying Elephant)
(Danbo)
(Dambo)
(NOTE: Most of the above titles were later renamed simply Dumbo.)
Art Babbitt (Mr. Stork, Clowns)
Ward Kimball (The Crows)
John Lounsbery (Timothy Mouse and Dumbo)
Wolfgang Reitherman (Timothy Mouse)
Vladimir Tytla (Dumbo, the elephants)
Fred Moore (Timothy Mouse)
Frank Thomas (Pink Elephants)
Note:All directing animators were credited on supervising these characters except Frank Thomas.
Wilfred Jackson (Dumbo)
Jack Kinney (The Crows)
Sam Armstrong (Casey Junior, Mr. Stork)
Bill Roberts (Timothy Mouse, Clowns)
Norman Ferguson (Pink Elephants, Circus animals)
Buddy movies
Movies with circus settings
(born ;* 10.
February 1898 in Augsburg; † 14.
August 1956 in Berlin) was a German poet and dramatist.
Afterwards he studied sciences, medicine and literature at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
He had to take a break in his studies because he had to join the army.
In the 1920s, Brecht went to Berlin and became a part of the cultural scene.
He met his second wife Helene Weigel in Berlin and married her, after divorcing his first wife.
It was with his second wife that Brecht had another son.
His works became very critical about the capitalistic society (e.g. "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" (1930)).
Many of his friends were communists, but he never joined the KPD.
For the next five years he lived in Denmark.
In 1938 he wrote "Das Leben des Galilei" (The Life of Galilei) about Galileo Galilei, who was hunted by the Holy Inquisition because he wanted to tell the scientific truth.
Even under Stalin he was not safe.
He therefore flew through China to the United States.
After the workers' protest on June 17 1953, Brecht complained about the Eastern German government which landed him into some trouble.
From that point on he got more and more isolated.
Trommeln in der Nacht
Im Dickicht der Städte
Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England
Mann ist Mann
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Opernlibretto)
Der Ozeanflug, auch Der Lindberghflug, auch Der Flug der Lindberghs
Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis, auch Lehrstück
Der Jasager.
Der Neinsager (Opernlibretti / Lehrstücke [Schuloper])
Die Maßnahme (Lehrstück)
Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
Die Ausnahme und die Regel (Lehrstück)
Die Mutter
Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe
Die Horatier und die Kuriatier (Lehrstück)
Leben des Galilei
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
Das Verhör des Lukullus, auch Lukullus vor Gericht, auch Die Verurteilung des Lukullus (Hörspiel, später Opernlibretto)
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
Die Gesichte der Simone Machard auch Die Stimmen (vgl.
Lion Feuchtwanger Simone)
Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
Die Tage der Commune
Turandot oder Der Kongreß der Weißwäscher
Bearbeitung der Antigone (1947)
Bearbeitung des Coriolanus von Shakespeare (1952/53)
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar
Die Hochzeit, auch Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit
Der Bettler oder Der tote Hund
Prärie (Opernlibretto)
Er treibt einen Teufel aus
Lux in Tenebris
Der Fischzug
Was kostet das Eisen?
Die sieben Todsünden, auch Die sieben Todsünden der Kleinbürger (Ballettlibretto)
Lieder zur Klampfe von Bert Brecht und seinen Freunden (1918)
Psalmen (1920)
Bertolt Brechts Hauspostille (1916–1925)
Die Augsburger Sonette (1925–1927)
Die Songs der Dreigroschenoper (1928)
Aus dem Lesebuch für Städtebewohner (1926–1927)
Die Nachtlager (1931)
Geschichten aus der Revolution (1932)
Sonette (1932–1934)
Englische Sonette (1934)
Lieder Gedichte Chöre (1933)
Chinesische Gedichte (1938–1949)
Studien (1934–1938)
Svendborger Gedichte ([1926]–1937)
Steffinsche Sammlung (1939–1942)
Hollywoodelegien (1942)
Gedichte im Exil ([1944])
Deutsche Satiren (1945)
Kinderlieder (1950)
Buckower Elegien (1953)
Choral vom Manne Baal
Ballade von den Seeräubern
Die Legende vom toten Soldaten
Die Liebenden, auch Terzinen über die Liebe
Der Schneider von Ulm
An die Nachgeborenen
Die Lösung
Mein Bruder war ein Flieger
Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters
Erinnerung an die Marie A.
Schlechte Zeit für Lyrik
Resolution der Kommunarden
Morgens und abends zu lesen
Kinderhymne
Bargan läßt es sein
Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner
Dreigroschenroman
Der Augsburger Kreidekreis
Flüchtlingsgespräche
Kalendergeschichten
Die unwürdige Greisin
Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Cäsar
Sämtliche Stücke in einem Band.
Komet, 2002,
Die Gedichte in einem Band.
Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002,
Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe.
Aufbau Verlag u. a., Berlin u. a. 1988–2000, , 30 Bände [1]
Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner.
Zürcher Fassung.
Herausgegeben von Erdmut Wizisla.
Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2004.
(Enthält erstmals veröffentlichte Geschichten aus einem Zürcher Fund im Jahr 2000.)
Disease-related deaths in Bavaria
People from Augsburg
Writers from Bavaria
Beresford is a city in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of South Dakota.
Most of the city is located in Union County, but a small part of it is in Lincoln County.
Beresford became a city in 1884, and 2,005 people lived there at the 2010 census.
City of Beresford website
1884 establishments in the United States
1880s establishments in Dakota Territory
Lessing was one of twelve children.
His father was a Protestant priest.
He went to school in Kamenz and got a stipendium for the Higher School in Meißen.
From 1746 to 1748, he studied medicine and theology in Leipzig.
In 1750, he moved to Berlin, where he met Voltaire.
In 1752 he got the Magister (Master) degree from the university in Wittenberg.
He moved back to Leipzig in 1755, but returned later to Berlin.
He traveled around in Europe and studied.
He worked as a reporter.
From 1760 to 1765, he worked as secretary for a general in Breslau (today: Wroclaw).
Later he worked at the theater and became a librarian.
Lessing got married in 1776.
But 1778 his wife died.
Fabeln von Lessing  im Literaturnetz
Lessing-Akademie Wolfenbüttel
Lessing-Museum in Kamenz
Biographie in ADB
Briefe, die Neueste Literatur betreffend
Deutscher Bildungsserver: Pädagogische Materialien zu Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Einführung in die Dramentheorie Lessings
kostenlose Hörbuchabhandlung als MP3: Über die Wahrheit
Das Lessing-Denkmal in Wolfenbüttel
1729 births
1781 deaths
People from Saxony
Heinrich Böll (December 21, 1917 in Cologne – July 16, 1985 in Langenbroich the Eifel, south of Bonn) was a German writer.
He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
Böll was born in Cologne.
His family were strong Catholics and pacifists.
He went to school from 1922 to 1937.
After his abitur, he started a training to become a bookseller.
He did not go to the Hitler Youth, but he had to join the German army in the World War II.
In 1939, he started to study German literature in Cologne, but he had to break for his army service.
In 1945 he became prisoner of war by the Americans.
The Americans wanted to educate the German people to became a democracy.
So they encouraged prisoners with talent to write.
Böll and some other young writers founded the group 47.
Böll wrote a lot of social critical literature.
His main themes were the repression in the way of life by conservative catholic forces and the unsolved problem of old Nazis in the society.
In the 1970s, he criticized the losing of civil laws by the fight against terrorism (of the RAF, Red Army Faction, a left-winged political terror group in the 1970s in West Germany).
For that reason, the Bild-Zeitung, an very conservative yellow press newspaper, started a campaign against him.
In the late 1970s, he started to look for Human Rights in the Eastern Blok, where some friends of his lived, too.
He helped the Soviet dissidents Alexander Solshenizyn and Lev Kopelev.
In the 1980s, he worked for the peace movement.
He protested against the nuclear armament in West Germany.
Heinrich Böll Foundation
The Green Party of Germany gave its foundation the name of Böll, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung.
The goals of the foundation are for countries to work together, civil laws and democratic and ecological thinking.
Selected bibliography
Der Zug war pünktlich (The Train Was on Time), 1949
Das Vermächtnis (A Soldier's Legacy), written 1948-1949; publ.
Wanderer, kommst du nach Spa (Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans), 1950
Die schwarzen Schafe (Black Sheep), 1951
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit (Christmas Not Just Once a Year), 1951
Wo warst du, Adam? (
And Where Were You, Adam?),
Der Engel schwieg (The Silent Angel), written 1949-1951; publ.
Und sagte kein einziges Wort (And Never Said a Word), 1953
Haus ohne Hüter (House without Guardians), 1954
Das Brot der frühen Jahre (The Bread of Those Early Years), 1955
Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal), 1957
Die Spurlosen (Missing Persons), 1957
Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen (Dr. Murke's Collected Silence), 1958
Billard um halb zehn (Billiards at Half-Past Nine), 1959
Ein Schluck Erde, 1962
Ansichten eines Clowns (The Clown), 1963
Entfernung von der Truppe (Absent Without Leave), 1964
Ende einer Dienstfahrt (End of a Mission), 1966
Gruppenbild mit Dame (Group Portrait with Lady), 1971
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum), 1974
Fürsorgliche Belagerung (The Safety Net), 1979
Was soll aus dem Jungen bloss werden? (
What's to Become of the Boy?),
Vermintes Gelände, 1982
Die Verwundung (The Casualty), early tales, publ.
Frauen vor Flusslandschaft (Women in a River Landscape), 1985 (publ.
posthumously)
More than seventy translations of Annemarie and Heinrich Böll are listed in the bibliography published in 1995 by Werner Bellmann: poetical works of Brendan Behan, Eilis Dillon, O. Henry, Paul Horgan, Bernard Malamud, J. D. Salinger, George Bernard Shaw et al.
Bernd Balzer: Das literarische Werk Heinrich Bölls.
Kommentare und Interpretationen.
dtv, München 1997.
Werner Bellmann (Ed.):
Das Werk Heinrich Bölls.
Bibliographie mit Studien zum Frühwerk.
Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1995.
Heinrich Böll, Romane und Erzählungen.
Interpretationen.
Reclam, Stuttgart 2000.
Michael Butler (Ed.):
The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Böll.
Social conscience and literary achievement.
Cambridge 1994.
J.H. Reid: Heinrich Böll.
A German for His Time.
Berg Publishers Ltd., Oxford 1988.
Klaus Schröter: Heinrich Böll.
Rowohlt-Verlag, Reinbek 1987.
Jochen Vogt: Heinrich Böll.
Beck, München 1987.
Heinrich Vormweg: Der andere Deutsche.
Heinrich Böll.
Eine Biographie.
Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2002.
Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
Cologne Library Heinrich Böll Archive
The Heinrich Böll Page
Nobel Archive: Böll, 1972
http://www.heinrich-boell.de/ - German homepage
People from Cologne
Anna Seghers (; born Anna Reiling, 19 November 1900 – 1 June 1983), was a German writer notable for exploring and depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.
Seghers' parents were orthodox Jews, but also interested in Christianity.
Nelly made her abitur in 1920.
Before this, she had served as a nurse during World War I.
She married Hungarian Laszlo Radvanyi in 1925, and obtained Hungarian citizenship.
After the Nazis took over government in Germany, she was arrested and her books were burned.
In 1947 she returned to Berlin, Eastern Berlin, joining the Socialist Party.
She worked for the Writers Union of the GDR.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (November 10, 1759 in Marbach, Württemberg – May 9, 1805 in Weimar), usually known as Friedrich Schiller, was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.
Die Räuber (The Robbers) (1781)
Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) (1784)
Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos) (1787)
Wallenstein (1800)
Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans) (1801)
Maria Stuart (Mary Stuart) (1801)
Turandot (1802)
Die Braut von Messina (1803)
Wilhelm Tell (William Tell) (1804)
Demetrius (unfinished at his death)
An die Freude or Ode to Joy (1785) which became the basis for the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony
The Artists
The Cranes of Ibykus
Pegasus in Harness
Nänie which Brahms set to music
Friedrich Schiller Chronology
"Say it loud – it's Schiller and it's proud" by George Steiner
2005 is Schiller year: all dates
Letters upon the Education of Man at
Schiller Monument in Schiller Park, German Village, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Schiller multimedial  combines a biographical observation by Norbert Oellers with classic recordings and video clips
Mobile Schiller  Mobile Java application containing 20 poems of Schiller
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee  (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British politician.
Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, he was the first Labour prime minister with a majority in government, and was very important in the setting up of the welfare state.
He was made a member of the House of Lords after he retired, and became the first Earl Attlee.
Attlee died of pneumonia in 1967.
Attlee was born in Putney.
Attlee was educated at Haileybury College.
He graduated from University College, Oxford with a Second Class Honours BA in Modern History in 1904.
Attlee began a career as a barrister after graduating from Oxford.
This lasted for two years.
He then worked as manager of Haileybury House in East London.
Attlee's work at the House inspired him to become a socialist.
In 1907 he joined the Fabian Society.
In 1908 he joined the Independent Labour Party.
In 1911, he was employed by the UK Government.
In 1919 Attlee became Mayor of Stepney.
He was elected to Parliament in 1922 as the MP for Limehouse.,
In 1935 he was elected leader of the Labour Party.
From 1942 to 1945 he was deputy prime minister.
Attlee resigned as party leader after Labour lost the 1955 election.
He was made a member of the Order of Merit in 1951 and a Knight of the Garter in 1956.
In 1958 he started the Homosexual Reform Society with Bertrand Russell.
British mayors
Deputy Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
People from Putney
The bassoon is the lowest of the four main instrument of the woodwind family.
Like the oboe, it has a double reed.
The reed is attached to a curved metal mouthpiece called a "crook" or "bocal" which is joined to the main part of the instrument.
This consists of two parts called ‘bass joint’ and ‘wing joint’ (or ‘tenor joint’).
These two are joined at the bottom by a U-shaped piece called the ‘boot’.
At the top of the instrument is the ‘bell joint’.
The instrument is quite heavy.
Some players have a neckstrap around their neck to support the weight, but usually they use a seat strap that connects at the bottom of the boot and goes across the floor.
The bassoonist, a person who plays a bassoon, then sits on that strap.
The bassoon is held to the right side of the bassoonist and the top of the boot joint is usually level with the players hip.
The bassoon, when played right, can sound very beautiful.
The bassoon has one of the largest note ranges, going from low B flat to a high F on the top line of the treble clef.
The bassoon can also play in tenor clef, but usually plays bass clef.
Some bassoons have a white, ivory ring round the top of the bell joint.
These are German bassoons (called ‘Heckel’).
French bassoons (called ‘Buffet’) do not have this ring, and also sound quite different to German bassoons.
Bassoons have keys to help the player to cover all the holes, but these keys do not use the Boehm fingering system like the other woodwind instruments.
German bassoons use a system called the Heckel system, and French bassoons use the Buffet system..
The Bassoon is usually seen as a comical instrument, however it provides a very important role in the orchestra.
In fact, the Saxophone was invented to replace the Bassoon and Oboe, however, was rejected because it didn't sound the same in the orchestra.
Playing the bassoon
To play the bassoon, it is very important to have lots of breathing support.
Like with the oboe, fast passages can be played using double tonguing (single tonguing is like saying “tu-tu-tu-tu-tu”, double tonguing is like saying “te-ke-te-ke-te-ke”).
In most music, the bassoon will spend a lot of time playing a bass line, perhaps the same notes as the cello or tuba.
It can sometimes sound quite amusing when playing an “um-cha-um-cha” accompaniment like in the “Dance of the Cygnets” from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
It can sound very tuneful and sad as in the second movement of Rimsky Korsakov’s Sheherazade.
Listen to the opening of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring where it plays some quite high notes to fool people that it is the Cor anglais or the English Horn.
Even a famous composer, Saint Saëns, did not know what the instrument was.
Prokofiev uses the bassoon for grandfather’s tune in Peter and the Wolf.
Also, to play the bassoon, a player needs big hands because the bassoon's keys and holes are quite wide.
The holes are drilled in at an angle so that the upper register is not overblown and produces an unpleasant sound.
Whisper keys were also invented to prevent overblowing.
The bassoon is known for its reedy sound.
Its upper register is shrill and sometimes scary.
Middle register could be used for lullabies because of its majestic and soothing tone.
Its lower register is deep, dark, and could be used for scary movies and such.
History and repertoire
The bassoon developed from a renaissance instrument called the curtal or dulcian.
These were double reed instruments which often played with shawms.
In the Baroque period the bassoon became popular as an instrument to play the bass line, perhaps playing the same as the cello.
A man named Hotteterre made many parts of the modern bassoon.
In the late Baroque period composers like Antonio Vivaldi wrote concertos for bassoon and orchestra.
Some more famous bassoon concertos include one by Mozart, and in more recent times by Peter Maxwell Davies.
The bassoon was a very important instrument in the orchestra.
Mozart and Beethoven gave the bassoon important parts in the music.
Contrabassoon
In some pieces with a large orchestra a contrabassoon is used.
This plays an octave lower than a bassoon, taking it right down to bottom B flat or C on the piano.
Some contrabassoons are made to play a note lower, i.e. the very lowest note of the piano (A).
One might expect to see the contrabassoon sticking up high above all the other instruments in the orchestra, but in fact the tube keeps doing U-turns, making four parallel rows of tubing.
They are usually made with the bell pointing downwards.
The weight is supported by a peg to the floor.
The contrabassoon used to be shaped like a bassoon.
The contrabassoon adds richness to the sound of a full orchestra.
Listen carefully for the contrabassoon in the hymn-like introduction to the last movement of Symphony no 1 by Brahms.
It can be clearly heard, growling away, in the opening of the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand by Ravel.
If a musician sings or plays a scale (‘do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-si-do’) the first and last ‘do’ are an octave apart.
It is called an ‘octave’ because there are eight notes in a scale (‘octo’ is Latin for ‘eight’).
Two notes that are an octave apart sound very similar, almost like the same note.
The scientific reason for this is that the top note vibrates twice as fast.
For example: if someone plays Middle C on a piano, a hammer hits the Middle C strings inside and makes them vibrate 256 times a second.
The C an octave higher will vibrate 512 times a second.
Young children who learn the piano will not be able to stretch an octave with one hand, if their hands are too small.
Most adults can stretch an octave easily (playing one note with the thumb, and the other with the little finger).
Dry pine needles, leaves or grass
Dead, standing (usually one season old) goldenrod
Cloth, lint, or frayed rope (if made from plant fibers and not treated with fire retardant)
Char cloth
Cotton swabs, tampons
Paper, paper towels, toilet paper, etc.
Punk wood (in the process of rotting) or charred wood
Some types of fungus (best known is the amadou or horse's hoof fungus)
Bird down
Small twigs (poor tinder but commonly available)
Fine-grade soap-coated steel wool
Shaved magnesium or other alkaline earth metals
Stephen Joseph Harper  (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian economist, entrepreneur, and retired politician.
He was the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015.
He is a member and the former leader of the Conservative Party, after being elected in 2004.
He was elected in February 2006 and replaced Paul Martin as Prime Minister.
Harper was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario and lives in Calgary, Alberta.
He is married to Laureen Teskey and has two children.
He is the third Prime Minister, after Pierre Trudeau and John Turner, to send their children to Rockcliffe Park Public School, in Ottawa.
Stephen Harper was Prime Minister for nine years, during which Canada hosted both the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games.
Harper also hosted the G8 and G20 meetings.
Harper is a conservative and supports cutting government spending and taxes.
As Prime Minister, he has cut the goods and services tax and approved a budget that would cut funding to several government programs.
He has also shown support for the military and a bigger Canadian military presence in the northern part of Canada.
Even though Harper did win the seat in the riding of Calgary Heritage during the October 19, 2015 federal election, the Conservative Party was defeated by the Liberal Party of Canada, which was led by Justin Trudeau and who succeeded Harper as Prime Minister.
It was thereafter announced Harper would resign as party leader and had requested an interim leader be chosen to serve until a leadership election can be held.
Politicians from Toronto
Politicians from Alberta
Canadian economists
Members of the House of Commons of Canada
A tadpole or polliwog is the larva of a frog.
It breathes water and lives in the water.
Tadpoles hatch from small eggs.
Frog eggs are round and toad eggs are laid in long strings.
Like bird eggs, they have nutrients (food) inside them for the young animal to grow before it hatches.
Tadpoles swim by lateral undulation: their tails move side to side, not up and down.
Most types of tadpole eat only plants, for example algae on rocks.
Some types of tadpole eat plants and animals, even other smaller tadpoles.
After some time, the tadpoles begin to grow legs: first the hind legs and then the front legs.
Then they are called froglets.
Soon after, froglets grow lungs and begin to breathe air and lose their tails.
The tail disappears because the cells in the tail gently die.
Each tadpole's mouth changes from small to as wide as its head.
Its intestines become shorter.
They grow larger, and eventually become adults.
How fast or slow the eggs hatch and how fast or slow the tadpole becomes a froglet is different in different frogs.
Some tadpoles take months to become frogs.
Some stay tadpoles all winter and do not become frogs until the next spring, or even three years later.
Some frogs lay their eggs in bodies of water that are only there in the spring and dry up in the summer, so the tadpoles must become frogs in only a few weeks.
It has about 18,000 inhabitants.
Most famous sight of the town is the beautiful town hall.
Official website of Zeulenroda-Triebes
Landkreis Greiz
Verwaltungsgemeinschaftfrei towns in Thuringia
Greiz Rural District
Nilsson was born in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City.
His paternal grandparents were Swedish.
"Without her" is one of his early hits.
This number is nowadays considered one of his standards as Blood, Sweat & Tears did later an jazzy cover on their album.
His biggest hits were during the late 1960s and the 1970s.
His songs include "Me And My Arrow", "Coconut", "Cuddly Toy", "Spaceman", and "One". "
One" was also a hit for the band Three Dog Night.
Nilsson's two most famous songs were "Without You" and "Everybody's Talkin'".
These songs were  written by other people. "
Without You" has been re-recorded many times by other singers.
It was written by Peter Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. "
Everybody's Talkin'" was used in the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy.
The song was written by Fred Neil.
Nilsson recorded a tribute to The Beatles on his first album.
He used lines from fifteen of their songs in one cover version of "You Can't Do That".
Derek Taylor, who worked for the Beatles, sent them copies of the album, and Nilsson became a friend of the band.
He later shared a house with John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
They worked together on each other's music.
Nilsson also wrote a cartoon movie named The Point!.
It was broadcast on ABC.
It was about tolerance and diversity.
was later turned into a musical.
One production of the musical starred former Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones.
The Monkees had recorded two of Nilsson's songs, "Cuddly Toy" and "Daddy's Song", after they met him through producer Chip Douglas.
The movie You've Got Mail uses several of Nilsson's songs in its soundtrack.
A performance of 'Without Her' from the 1971 BBC Television broadcast.
An acoustic guitar is a string instrument.
It has six strings which pass from tuning pegs over the instrument's neck which is marked with lines called frets.
These marks show where to press a string with the fingers of the left hand, to change the note that string plays.
The right hand plucks or strums the strings, either with the fingers or using a plectrum ("pick"), to make them sound.
Acoustic guitars are used in types of music ranging from classical to rock and roll, to bluegrass and folk.
The six strings can be steel or nylon.
Nylon strings are typically used for classical and related styles of music.
Steel strings are typically used for most other styles.
How the guitar became a popular instrument
The acoustic guitar came from Spain (an instrument with six strings), created by Antonio Torres Jurado.
But at the beginning, the guitar was different with what we see the guitar now.
In the 16th to 17th centuries, the guitar became popular in Europe.
In the 18th century, the guitar changed to be similar to how it is now.
But before the 19th century, many people thought the guitar could not be same as a piano or violin.
They thought it could not play classical music.
But at the beginning of 19th century, a famous guitar player, Fernando Sor, made the guitar become more popular and he made more people like playing the guitar.
Before the 20th century, people played the acoustic guitar.
In the 20th century, a musician in United States, Leo Fender, invented the electric guitar.
Guitar and ukulele compared
The guitar and the ukulele are similar in shape and other ways, but they are also different.
The ukulele looking like a small guitar.
But the guitar has six strings, and the ukulele has just four strings.
The six strings in a guitar are tuned: E, B, G, D, A, and E; the four strings in a ukulele are tuned: G, C, E, and A. Also, the ukulele comes from Hawaii, and the guitar comes from Spain.
A flipper is a special kind of limb that is flattened like a paddle for moving through water.
Many animals that live in water, such as whales and seals have flippers.
The flipper of a fish is called a fin.
Originally, such fungi were put in the genus Clavaria, and called "clavarioid", which means Clavaria-like.
It is now known that clavarioid species are not all closely related.
Since they are often studied as a group, we keep the informal (non-taxonomic) name of "clavarioid fungi", and it is frequently used in research papers.
They are usually found in forests but some can also be found in fields.
They are decomposers.
A stone fruit, also called a drupe, is a fruit with a large "stone" inside.
The stone is sometimes called the seed, but that is a mistake, as the seed is inside the stone.
The stones can also be called a pit.
These fruits are edible and used frequently in cooking.
What makes a fruit?
A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower.
Fruits consist of two main parts: the pericarp, or ovary wall, and the seed(s).
Berries vs. drupes
Drupes have a fleshy mesocarp, but a tough endocarp, and of course, a "stone" or "pit" at its center.
Drupes typically have only a single seed.
Examples of stone fruits
A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a large baleen whale with long flippers and a knobbly head.
They can be found in every ocean.
Humpback whales can live up to 45 years.
They migrate between the places they feed in the winter and the places they give birth in the summer.
They usually live alone.
Humpback whales eat krill and small fish, for example herring, capelin, and sand lance.
They scoop up their food in their large mouths.
Sometimes they round up their prey by swimming in tight circles and blowing curtains of bubbles around them.
They often hunt in small groups, called pods.
Whale song
The male whale is known to sing for up to 22 hours at a time.
Because whales do not have vocal cords, they make songs by forcing air through their nasal passages.
Every male has a different song.
We don't yet know why they sing, it might be to call a female or scare away other males.
The songs are made up of a pattern of low notes repeated over a period of hours or days.
The whales slowly change their songs over a period of years.
Other sounds
Slovak is the language spoken in Slovakia, a country in Central Europe.
It is a language from Slavic language family.
It is very similar to Czech, and Czechs and Slovaks understand each other quite well when they speak their own language.
Polish and Sorbian are also quite similar.
All of them belong to the western branch of Slavic languages.
Slovak is spoken by more than 5 million people.
The letters č, š, ž and dž are like the English sounds in chin, shin, vision and juice.
The letters c, dz and j are also soft, like ts in bats, ds in rods, and y in yes.
Signs over a vowel show that the vowel is pronounced long: á, é, í, ó, ý ú.
A long vowel is never followed in the next syllable by a short vowel.
The letter ô is like English woman, and ä is the same as the letter e.
The letter ch is like ch in Scottish loch.
V is more like English w.
The accent is always on the first syllable of the word.
That is different from Russian, for example, in which the stress can be anywhere.
Like other Slavic languages, Slovak is difficult for English-speakers to pronounce.,
especially because several consonants often come together.
In the sentence: “Strč prst skrz krk!”
there is not one single vowel (it means: “Stick a finger through your neck!”)!
The grammar is similar to Russian, but there are some differences.
Slovak, unlike Russian, has a separate word for “to be”:
Ja som Angličan (I am English).
There are three genders in Slovak, therefore it is important to know whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter.
There is no article to make it obvious (unlike in German), but it changes the adjective's ending.
Like many other European languages, Slovak verbs agree with the person, and there are different forms for 'I', 'you', 'he', etc.
Verbs have different aspects to show whether or not the action is complete.
There are also different cases that show how a word is used in a sentence.
Different prepositions use different cases.
All of that makes grammar quite complicated for English-speakers.
Sample words and phrases
–Hello
–Good morning
–Good day (Used during the day)
–Good evening
–Good night
–Welcome! (
familiar form)
polite form)
- My name is John (Literally: I call myself John)
–What is your name? (
Familiar form)
Polite form)
–I am American (If speaker is male)
–I am American (If speaker is female)
–How are you? (
–How are you (polite form)
–Thank you, I am well
–Not too bad
–Bad!
–Please
–Thank you
– You are welcome (this is a reply to “Ďakujem”)
- Enjoy your meal
Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA Games) is a large company which makes computer and video games all over the world.
They made famous games such as The Sims, Madden NFL and Medal of Honor.
They also made the Need for Speed series.
EAs most popular products are the games which are sold under the EA Sports label.
The company was started in February 1982 by Trip Hawkins.
They first shipped their games in May 1983.
Studios
Pinball Construction Set (1983) by Bill Budge
Archon (1983) and Archon II: Adept (1984) by Free Fall Associates
M.U.L.E. (1983) by Dan Bunten and Ozark Softscape
One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983) by Eric Hammond
Music Construction Set (1984) by Will Harvey
The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) by Dan Bunten and Ozark Softscape
The Bard's Tale (1985) by Interplay Productions
Mail Order Monsters (1985) by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson and Nicky Robinson
Racing Destruction Set (1985) by Rick Koenig
Instant Music (1986) by Robert Campbell
Starflight (1986) by Binary Systems
Skate or Die! (
1987), EA's first internally developed title
Zany Golf (1988), by Sandcastle Productions (Will Harvey)
Populous (1989) by Bullfrog which EA acquired in 1995
The Immortal (1990) by Sandcastle Productions (Will Harvey)
Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (1992) by EA's High Score Production group
NHL series (1991–)
Wing Commander series (1992 onwards, previous games published in-house)
FIFA series (1993–)
Need for Speed series (1994–) (first installment was made by EA in collaboration with Road & Track)
Ultima Online (1997) by Origin Systems
NASCAR series (1997–2009)
Command & Conquer series (titles from 1999–present) by Westwood Studios (earlier titles released by Virgin Interactive)
Dungeon Keeper series by Bullfrog Productions
SimCity series (titles from 1999–) by Maxis (earlier titles released by other publishers)
Medal of Honor series (1999–)
System Shock 2 (1999)
American McGee's Alice (2000)
SSX series (2000–)
James Bond series (1999–2005)
Harry Potter series (2001–2011)
The Sims (2000–2003) by Maxis
The Sims 2 (2004–2008) by Maxis (and later The Sims Studio)
The Sims Stories series (2007–2008) by Aspyr and EA
The Sims 3 (2009–present) by Visceral Games and The Sims Studio
Burnout series (2004–present)
Battlefield series (2002–present) by EA Digital Illusions CE
Madden NFL series (1989–present)
NCAA Football series (1993–present)
Dark Age of Camelot (republished after EA acquired Mythic in 2005)
Crysis series (2007–) by Crytek
Rock Band series (2007–) by Harmonix
Skate series (2007–) by EA Black Box
Mass Effect series (starting with Mass Effect 2, the first game was published by Microsoft)(2009–2012) by BioWare
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (2008) by Mythic Entertainment
Spore series (2008–) by Maxis
Army of Two series (2008–) by EA Montreal
Dead Space series (2008–) by Visceral Games
Mirror's Edge (2008) by EA Digital Illusions CE
Dragon Age series (2009–) by BioWare
Dante's Inferno (2010) by Visceral Games
Star Wars: The Old Republic (2011) by BioWare
The Simpsons: Tapped Out (2012, mobile)
The Sims 4 (2014)
American video game companies
1982 establishments in California
A tap, faucet, or spigot is something that a liquid or gas comes out of.
Taps usually have a handle that can be turned to start or stop the liquid coming out.
Many taps give water and are used in homes.
They are found in kitchens and bathrooms.
Water that comes out of a tap is called tap water.
At many restaurants, a person can ask for tap water instead of bottled water.
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A competition or contest is an event where people get together to see who is the best at something.
Someone who takes part in a competition ("enters for a competition") is called a competitor.
The competitors compete against one another.
The person who wins may get a prize.
The prize might be a trophy or money.
Some competitions need a referee.
The referee will make sure that the game is played fairly and that the competitors obey the rules.
In events like music competitions there will often be an adjudicator who will decide which person they think is the best.
In nature, animals compete with one another for the best food, the best nesting places, etc.
According to Charles Darwin, the competition in nature results in evolution.
In business, firms that make the same things or offer the same services are in competition with one another (see market forms).
If persons are "competitive" it means that they like trying to compete with other people.
Businesses often say that they sell things at "competitive prices".
This means that their prices are lower than those of other businesses which sell similar things.
Examples of competitions
Eating competitions, where people try to eat the most food
Running competitions, where people see who is the first to run from one place to another
Sport competitions, where sports teams try to beat each other to win a trophy
Singing competitions, where someone decides which person sang the best
Music competitions
SimCity is a computer game where the player has to build a city.
They can do whatever they want to their city.
It can be built from the ground up or it can be destroyed by a hurricane or a UFO.
Sim City was made by game maker Will Wright and first released by the company Maxis.
They are now owned by Electronic Arts.
The game was first officially released in 1989.
It was very popular because the game had no end.
A player could not win or lose.
This was the start of all simulation games.
At the start, the player has to build power plants.
Power plants make power so the city can have electricity.
By building power lines, power is connected to the different areas of the city.
Water needs to be pumped in from a river using pipes to connect them to the city.
Smaller areas are marked out.
These are made either residential, commercial, or industrial zones.
Zones are the only places where buildings can develop.
Every city needs the right amount of each zone otherwise the city will not grow.
Roads, schools and hospitals must all be built for the city to get better.
Parks and libraries make more people want to move to the city.
Railways and highways provide ways to connect to other neighborhoods.
After the first game, many more were created.
These were made up of three games, with spin-offs and expansion packs.
SimCity 3000
SimCity 3000 Unlimited
SimCity 3000 UK Edition
SimCity 4 Rush Hour
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
SimCity DS 2
SimCity Societies
SimCity Societies Destinations
SimCity (2013)
One holds a door open (or stops it from closing), and the other stops the door from hitting a wall.
Attached to the door they are supposed to stop
Wedges that can be put under the door they should stop, or anything heavy put in front of the door
Digital rights management (DRM) is a way to make it difficult to copy music, movies, and computer programs.
It is used to make people follow copyright laws.
It works by using computer technologies.
Many companies use DRM to protect their properties from copyright infringement, such as Sony, Microsoft and the BBC.
Other companies also use DRM.
Some people do not like digital rights management.
They think that DRM makes copying harder than copyright laws allow.
The Free Software Foundation suggested that 'digital restrictions management' is a better name.
People can break DRM.
If someone breaks a DRM technology then copying is possible.
All common DRM technologies have been broken.
Making a DRM technology that can not be broken is very hard.
Some people say that all DRM technologies can be broken.
In the United States it is illegal to break a DRM.
DRM is a way for companies to keep their profits while sharing their content online.
A good example of this is BBC iPlayer.
They do this by keeping their content online for a certain amount of time.
Cement is a material that hardens and sticks to other materials to hold them together.
Portland cement is a common kind, and made from quicklime (heated limestone) and clay.
Cement is used to make concrete and mortar.
Brown algae are a large group of multicellular algae.
All the brown algae are multicellular.
Most brown algae have fucoxanthin, a chemical that gives them a brown color.
They inlude many seaweeds in colder waters of the Northern Hemisphere.
Most brown algae live in marine environments, where they play an important role both as food and as a potential habitat.
There are 2000 species of brown algae.
Most species live in the ocean.
They are important as food and as homes for many animals and marine life.
Some brown algae are gathered by humans for food.
The giant kelp Macrocystis is a brown alga that forms underwater forests, and it may grow to 60 meters.
The Sargasso Sea gets its name from the Sargassum seaweed that floats on the surface.
Many brown algae grow on rocks at the seashore.
Brown algae are unique among heterokonts in developing into multicellular forms with differentiated tissues.
But they reproduce by means of flagellated spores and gametes that look like the cells of other heterokonts.
Genetic studies show their closest relatives to be the yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae).
Bacillus is a genus of rod shaped bacteria.
They are Gram-positive, meaning they have an extra outside cell layer.
Bacilli are partly or wholly aerobic.
They do aerobic respiration.
They are everywhere in nature.
Bacillus includes both free-living (non-parasitic) and parasitic pathogenic species.
Under stressful conditions, they produce endospores.
These are not true spores, but like survival pods they can stay in a dormant state for long periods.
Some species of Bacillus are worth noting:
Bacillus anthracis, which causes Anthrax.
Bacillus subtilis is considered an model organism.
It is often used in genetic engineering.
Bacillus cereus which is responsible for a form of food poisoning.
Bacillus thuringensis which is used in pest control.
It produces a toxin which can kill some moths, and certain butterflies.
Gram-positive bacteria
Milk powder is a powder made by dehydrating milk.
When water is added, it becomes liquid milk again.
Milk powder is often used in countries that lack widespread access to refrigeration.
As well, it is often used in recipes that call for milk.
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (also called lingonberry, partridgeberry, mountain cranberry or cowberry) is a small evergreen shrub from the heather family that makes edible fruits.
Dehydration (hypohydration) means less water in something.
The word comes from the ancient Greek word for water, hydor.
People get dehydrated when they lose more water than they take in.
The human body needs water to survive.
If a person gets badly dehydrated, their body will be unable to work the right way.
Bad dehydration can cause organ damage and even death.
What causes dehydration?
A living organism will get dehydrated if their body is losing water in some way and they do not drink enough to replace the water.
The most common causes of dehydration are:
Sweating a lot (because of hot weather or exercise)
Bad diarrhea
Vomiting (throwing up)
Urinating more than usual (this can happen if a person has uncontrolled diabetes or takes medicines like diuretics which cause them to urinate more often)
Who gets dehydration?
Any living being can get dehydrated.
Some people are more at risk of dehydration.
Elderly people, very young children, and people with chronic illnesses are at the highest risk for dehydration.
Dehydrated people may have different symptoms depending on how dehydrated they are.
If dehydration is not treated, it will get worse.
As dehydration gets worse, the symptoms get more dangerous.
Dry, sticky mouth
Feeling tired or sleepy
Not urinating as much as usual
Dry skin
Feeling dizzy or lightheaded
No tears come out when the person cries
Being very thirsty
Feeling irritable and confused (infants and children may be very fussy or get very sleepy)
Very dry mouth and mucous membranes
Shriveled, dry skin that is less elastic than normal (it doesn't "bounce back" when pinched into a fold)
Urinating very little, with darkly colored urine, or not urinating at all
Sunken eyes
In infants, the fontanel (the soft spot on the top of the head) may be sunken
Low blood pressure (blood pressure may also drop when the person sits up or stands up, making them feel dizzy or faint; this is called orthostasis)
Fast heartbeat (tachycardia)
Fast breathing (tachypnea)
In the most serious cases, delirium or unconsciousness
Severe dehydration is a medical emergency.
If a person with severe dehydration does not get medical treatment soon enough, they can die.
What problems may dehydration cause?
Bad dehydration can cause serious health problems.
Some of these problems are:
Heat injury.
When it is very hot outside, or when a person is exercising a lot, fluids like water help keep the body cool.
If the person is dehydrated, their body can overheat (it gets too hot and cannot cool itself down).
This can cause heat injury.
The mildest (least serious) form of heat injury is heat cramps (cramping, or pain, in the muscles).
As heat injury gets worse, it becomes heat exhaustion.
If the body keeps overheating and the person does not get medical treatment, heat exhaustion becomes heat stroke.
Heat stroke is a very serious medical emergency.
People with heat stroke can have damage to their organs and even die if they do not get treatment quickly enough.
Swelling of the brain (cerebral edema).
Sometimes the body tries to fix dehydration by pulling a lot of water into its cells.
If the body pulls too much water into the cells, those cells can swell and break.
If this happens to the cells in the brain, the brain can swell.
Seizures.
When a person gets dehydrated, their electrolytes can get out of balance.
Electrolytes are important salts in the body which carry electricity.
When electrolytes like sodium and potassium get out of balance, the body's electrical signals can get mixed up.
This can cause seizures.
Fluid is an important part of human blood.
Water makes up most of blood plasma, which carries blood cells and other important things to the entire body.
If a person gets very dehydrated, the amount of blood in the body drops.
This causes low blood pressure.
If a person does not have enough blood and oxygen in their body, they can go into shock.
In medicine, this is called hypovolemic shock.
Kidney failure.
Bad dehydration can hurt the kidneys.
When the kidneys are hurt or not working properly, they cannot remove poisons and extra fluid from the blood.
How is dehydration treated?
When dehydration is not too bad, people can usually treat themselves by drinking.
This is called oral rehydration therapy.
Stores sell special drinks like Pedialyte and Gatorade, which have both water and electrolytes in them.
People can also make their own oral rehydration solution (a drink which treats dehydration) by mixing water with sugar and salt.
People with very bad dehydration need emergency medical treatment.
They may need to get fluids intravenously (through a needle placed into a vein).
This replaces lost fluids and electrolytes much more quickly than drinking.
It is also helpful for people who are unable to drink because of nausea and vomiting from dehydration.
Square Enix is a Japanese company that makes video games and manga.
It was created on April 1, 2003.
Two companies called Square Co., Ltd. and Enix combined to form Square Enix.
Square Enix is famous for its role-playing games.
This includes the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series and the Kingdom Hearts series.
They are one of the biggest videogame companies in the world.
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A game designer is someone who designs games.
The term "game designer" usually refers to someone who designs computer or video games, but can also be a person who designs older games like a board game.
is a Japanese game designer and producer at Nintendo.
He created the Donkey Kong, Mario, Pikmin and The Legend of Zelda video game series for Nintendo.
He is one of the most famous game designers in the world and is often called the father of modern video gaming.
His games give players many ways to play and explore.
This was unique in video games when his games were first released.
Miyamoto started working with Nintendo in 1977 as an artist when it was still a toy and playing-card company.
In 1980, he designed Donkey Kong, which was a big success.
Miyamoto became Nintendo's leading producer, and he continues to create many popular games for Nintendo today Such as entries in the Super Mario and the Zelda series.
Miyamoto was born on November 16, 1952 in the Japanese town of Sonobe, which is a rural town that is northwest of Kyoto.
His father taught English language.
Miyamoto graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts with a degree in industrial design.
However, he could not find a job.
He also loved manga.
Before he thought about starting a career in video games, he wanted to become a professional manga artist.
Manga's classical kishōtenketsu narrative structure influenced him.
Western genre television shows also influenced him.