the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
The Norton Lectures, delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967, by Jorge Luis Borges
Borges' Bad Politics Slate.com presents an essay by Clive James arguing that Borges could have done more to engage with Argentina's political situation
"El Tango"  on audio MP3 (in Spanish)
Rend(er)ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies William A. Nericcio (1993); pdf full-text
Poem of Jorge Luis Borges in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 'Fundación mítica de Buenos Aires'
Argentine writers
People from Buenos Aires
Argentine poets
Argentine translators
was a Japanese poet.
He is known for his haiku poems and his journals.
He is thought of as one of the four haiku masters in Japan.
The others are Bashō, Buson and Shiki.
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa A searchable online archive of 9000 haiku by David G. Lanoue.
Originally housed at Xavier University of Louisiana, this archive was moved after Hurricane Katrina to its present, permanent location.
一茶発句全集 (The complete haiku of Issa)
一茶記念館 (Issa Memorial Museum)
People from Nagano Prefecture
was the pen-name of a Japanese author, poet, literary critic, and journalist in Meiji period of Japan.
His real name was Masaoka Tsunenori.
As a child he was called Noboru.
Selected Poems (haiku and tanka) of Masaoka Shiki, Translated by Janine Beichman at University of Virginia Library Japanese Text Initiative poem translations from 'Masaoka Shiki' by Janine Beichman
Ehime University site on Masaoka Shiki with photos, poetry
fan site with bio and poems
National Diet Library bio and photos
Japanese journalists
People from Ehime Prefecture
William J. "Billy" Collins (born March 22, 1941) is a poet who served two terms as the 11th Poet Laureate of the United States.
He served from 2001 to 2003.
In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004.
(from 1999): As I'm writing, I'm always reader conscious.
I have one reader in mind, someone who is in the room with me, and who I'm talking to, and I want to make sure I don't talk too fast, or too glibly.
Usually I try to create a hospitable tone at the beginning of a poem.
Stepping from the title to the first lines is like stepping into a canoe.
(from 2004): Moving from the position of United States poet laureate to New York State poet laureate might seem like a demotion or a drop in rank to the military-minded.
It might even appear that I am heading toward eventually being crowned laureate of my ZIP code.
But in fact, it is very gratifying to be honored again as a representative of poetry, this time by my native state where I grew up — more or less — and continue to live.
Watch a collection of 11 animated poems read aloud by Billy Collins
33 poems read aloud by Billy Collins, no charge (Creative Commons)
Poems by Billy Collins at PoetryFoundation.org
Griffin Poetry Prize biography (2004 judge and award emcee)
Billy Collins at poets.org
Billy Collins at poetenladen.de (poetshop)
Wind power in Texas consists of many wind farms with a total installed generating capacity of 9,410 MW from over 40 different projects.
Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state, followed by Iowa with 3,670 MW.
Several forces are working to the advantage of wind power in Texas: the wind resource in many areas of the state is very large, large projects are relatively easy to site, and the market price for electricity is relatively high because it is set by natural gas prices.
The wind power industry is also creating many jobs and farmers may earn extra income by leasing their land to wind developers.
The Roscoe Wind Farm (781 MW) is the world's largest wind farm.
Other large wind farms in Texas include: Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center, Sherbino Wind Farm, Capricorn Ridge Wind Farm, Sweetwater Wind Farm, Buffalo Gap Wind Farm, King Mountain Wind Farm, Desert Sky Wind Farm, Wildorado Wind Ranch, and the Brazos Wind Farm.
Wind power has a long history in Texas.
West Texas State University began wind energy research in 1970 and led to the formation of the Alternative Energy Institute (AEI) in 1977.
AEI has been a major information resource about wind energy for Texas.
Texas is firmly established as the leader in wind power development in the USA, ahead of Iowa and California.
The expanding wind power market will help Texas meet its 2015 renewable energy goal of 5,000 new megawatts of power from renewable sources.
The table below lists the larger wind farms in Texas, currently operating or under construction.
Wind farms which are smaller than 120 MW in capacity are not shown.
Several forces are driving the growth of wind power in Texas: the wind resource in many areas of the state is very large, large projects are relatively easy to site, and the market price for electricity is set by natural gas prices and so is relatively high.
The broad scope and geographical extent of wind farms in Texas is considerable:
"Wind resource areas in the Texas Panhandle, along the Gulf Coast south of Galveston, and in the mountain passes and ridge tops of the Trans-Pecos offer Texas some of the greatest wind power potential in the United States.
Currently there are over 2,000 wind turbines in West Texas alone.
Most of the new wind capacity added in the last two years has been in the Abilene-Sweetwater area.
The Horse Hollow Wind Energy Center is the largest wind power facility in the nation with a total capacity of 735 MW.
It is spread across approximately 47,000 acres in Taylor and Nolan County near Abilene."
Wind is a highly variable resource, but with proper understanding it can be readily incorporated into an electric utility's generation mix.
Many areas contain areas with winds presently suitable for electric power generation.
The number of commercially attractive sites will expand as wind turbine technology improves and development costs continue to drop.
Texas farmers may lease their land to wind developers for either a set rental per turbine or for a small percentage of gross annual revenue from the project.
This offers farmers a fresh revenue stream without impacting traditional farming and grazing practices.
Although leasing arrangements vary widely, the U. S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2004 that a farmer who leases land to a wind project developer can generally obtain royalties of $3,000 to $5,000 per turbine per year in lease payments.
These figures are rising as larger wind turbines are being produced and installed.
The wind power industry is also creating thousands of jobs for communities and for the state.
Wind technology and the various aspects of producing electricity from wind power can help to keep employment in Texas after the rigs stop producing oil.
Terrorism and industrial accidents can be potential threats to the large, centrally located, power plants that provide most of Texas’ electricity.
Should one of these plants be damaged, repairs could take more than a year, possibly creating power shortages on a scale that Texans have never experienced before.
Coal trains and gas pipelines are also vulnerable to disruption.
However, wind power plants are quickly installed and repaired.
The modular structure of a wind farm also means that if one turbine is damaged, the overall output of the plant is not significantly affected.
is a famous Japanese game designer.
He was born in 1958.
For most of his life, he has worked for Sega.
Some people say he is as famous as Shigeru Miyamoto.
Suzuki created games like Hang-On and Virtua Fighter and Shenmue.
He was person #6 who was added to the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
Both of Suzuki's parents were school teachers.
When Suzuki was growing up, he wanted to be a dentist.
But he could not pass the test, so he decided to study computers instead.
In 1983 he started working at Sega.
In 1993 he wrote a famous game called Virtua Fighter.
It was so famous, that it was added to the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC, as an example of an important game.
Suzuki said in an interview that he greatly enjoys creating games.
However, he has doesn't care much about playing them.
he would rather spend his free time watching movies and visiting theme parks.
Canceled games
On top of games, Yu Suzuki lead the creation of a technical demo "Tower of Babel" prepared for the Dreamcast showcase at Tokyo New Otani Hotel on May 1st 1998.
Hardware developed
Sega Space Harrier (1985)
Sega Model 1 (1992)
Sega Model 2 (1993)
Sega Model 3 (1996)
Dreamcast (1998)
Sega NAOMI (1998)
Sega people
People from Iwate Prefecture
The Isra and Mi'raj are two parts of a story that Muslims tell about Muhammad.
They say that in the year 621, while he was resting in the Kaaba in Mecca, an angel came to him, with an animal called a Buraq.
The Buraq carried Muhammad to a mosque that was far away, and then the Buraq took Muhammad up into heaven.
While in Heaven, Muhammad met Adam and Moses and Allah (God), and then came back down to Earth.
Every year, Muslims hold a festival for the Isra and Mi'raj.
They bring their children to the mosques, where the children can hear the story, and then pray with the grownups.
Afterwards there is a feast and everyone can eat.
Fustat was the first Arab capital in Egypt.
It was founded in 641 AD, after the Arabs conquered Alexandria.
The Arabs did not want their capital to be so far away as Alexandria, which is why they made Fustat, which was far from the sea and closer to Arabia, and was on their side of the Nile river.
Fustat became a beautiful and powerful city for over 500 years, but then it was destroyed in 1168, when its vizier Shawar told his army to burn the city.
Shawar did not want the crusaders to capture the city, so he burned it instead.
641 establishments
7th-century establishments in Africa
A vizier  is an Arabic word for a kind of government official.
A vizier would usually work for a Muslim monarch like a Caliph or a Sultan.
Etymology OnLine
Royal Ark, dynasties in historical context - see each muslim nation quoted in this article, often in the section 'Glossary'
WorldStatesmen - click on each Islamic present state
Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949) is an American musician and songwriter.
He is the son of country music legend Hank Williams.
His nickname is "Bocephus", given to him by his father.
He has a half-sister, named Jett Williams.
From his boyhood, Hank Jr., performed his father's music publicly, because many people were still interested in it, and Hank Sr.
's career was cut short by alcohol and drug abuse.
Young Williams wanted to perform music of his own, and to have his own musical career apart from his father's, but it was hard to "get out from his father's shadow", and be recognized for his own talents.
In time, Williams met musicians who liked him for his own ideas, and helped him to develop his own kind of music.
He was able to become an original writer and performer, while still being proud to be Hank Sr.
's son.
Some of his father's fans were sad that he wanted to do this, but others understood.
He also gained new fans, performing his new music.
Some of Williams's songs are "Eleven Roses", "Family Tradition", "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound", "All My Rowdy Friends", and "A Country Boy Can Survive".
Even though he had hit records and many fans, it took years for people in country music to accept him and his chosen style.
Williams lost out on many awards he could have earned.
Finally in the 1980s, he began to win awards as a country performer.
In the 1990s, Williams recorded a  with his father, by using an old recording, and the two appeared together in a music video through electronic editing.
In 2005, Williams donated $125,000 to relief efforts in Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina.
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" (1964)
"All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" (1984)
"The Party's On" (2016)
Connie Francis and Hank Williams Jr. Sing Great Country Favorites (1964)
Ballads of the Hills and Plains (1965)
Blues My Name (1965)
A Time to Sing (1967)
Songs My Father Left Me (1969)
Luke the Drifter Jr. Vol.
2 (1969)
Live at Cobo Hall (1969)
Sunday Morning (1969)
After You, Pride's Not Hard to Swallow (1973)
One Night Stands (1977)
Hank Williams Jr. and Friends (1975)
The New South (1977)
Family Tradition (1979)
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound (1979)
Habits Old and New (1980)
Rowdy (1981)
The Pressure Is On (1981)
High Notes (1982)
Strong Stuff (1983)
Man of Steel (1983)
Major Moves (1984)
Five-O (1985)
Montana Cafe (1986)
Hank Live (1987)
Born to Boogie (1987)
Wild Streak (1988)
Lone Wolf (1990)
Pure Hank (1991)
Maverick (1992)
Out of Left Field (1993)
Hog Wild (1995)
A.K.A. Wham Bam Sam (1996)
Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts (1996)
Stormy (1999)
The Almeria Club Recordings (2002)
I'm One of You (2003)
127 Rose Avenue (2009)
Old School New Rules (2012)
It's About Time (2016)
Utagawa Kunisada (; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (, ), was a Japanese artist.
The Utagawa Kunisada Project
List of Kunisada pictures
, also called   or Yoshitoshi,  was a Japanese artist.
Artencyclopedia.com, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Online
Artists from Tokyo
is a landmark in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture.
It was the fortress of various daimyo during the Muromachi period of Japanese history.
Odawara Castle was destroyed by the Meiji government.
However, present Odawara Castle was rebuilt in 1960.
It serves as a museum and is designated as an important historical monument.
Odawara Castel premise is a park, and there are zoo and small amusement park in addition to historical site such as Castel tower.
It was voted the 100 best historic parks in Japan in October, 2006.
The phrase is Latin.
It literally means from when the city was founded.
The city talked about is the city of Rome.
This way of measuring time was not used in Classical antiquity.
The first to have used it was the historian Orosius, about 400 AD.
Marcus Terentius Varro found out that the city of Rome was founded 440 years after the fall of Troy.
Romulus and Remus founded it.
Varro thought that was in the spring of 753 BC.
Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius thought that Rome was founded one year after the 7th Olympic Games.
That would have been in 752 BC.
The mesosphere is a part of the atmosphere.
It is between the stratosphere and the thermosphere.
On Earth, the mesosphere starts at 50 kilometers above the planet to about 90 km above the planet.
The mesosphere is the most poorly understood part of the atmosphere.
The mesosphere lies above the highest point for flying a plane, but below the lowest point for flying a spaceship.
It also has a layer of electrically charged particles called the ionosphere.
Description with links to other atmospheric topics
Layers of Earth's atmosphere
A magnetosphere is a region around an astronomical object, such as a planet.
It is the region where charged particles are  affected by the object's magnetic field.
The magnetosphere of the Sun is called the heliosphere.
Ions and electrons of the solar wind are deflected by the heliosphere.
Since a magnetosphere is magnetic, it is invisible.
However, the Earth's magnetosphere makes the Aurora Borealis.
This is what causes the "Northern Lights" that shimmer in the night sky near the North Pole.
'Opa' Dorus
Dorus received his nickname "Grandpa" (Dutch:"Opa") while still a young man.
He had married Neeltje Huisman, a fisherman's widow who already had 6 children.
Shortly after the marriage, the oldest of Neeltje's daughters had a child of her own, and so at only 23 years old Dorus became known as "Opa" in Den Helder where he lived.
Although the nickname began as a joke, Dorus soon started acting and looking like a grandpa, and from that time on he became primarily known by his nickname.
Career as a lifeboat captain
Dorus gained most of his fame as a result of his service to the Noord- en zuid-Hollandsche Redding Maatschappij (NZHRM), one of the two main Dutch lifeboat-societies at the time.
The NZHRM would later become the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (KNRM).
However his life-saving career began in 1872 before he joined the NZHRM, while acting as captain of his own boat.
While at sea, he saved all 25 crew members of the barque Australia from drowning at sea.
Because of this incident, Dorus gained a reputation as a rescuer, which preceded his joining the NZHRM as a volunteer.
On the basis of his reputation, he was granted the position of coxswain upon joining the NZHRM without having to prove his qualifications.
His rank of coxswain entitled him to immediately command his own boat and crew.
Although Dorus joined the NZHRM as a volunteer, he worked so many hours that it precluded him from taking on other paid work.
Dorus and all of his crew members received a sum for each trial and each service.
During his nearly 30 years service with the NZHRM, Dorus saved hundreds of people from drowning at sea, becoming legendary long before his retirement.
In the waters where he served, he saved such large number of people with such effectiveness that the survival statistics increased dramatically.
At the end of his career, although he remained active, his role became more symbolic in nature.
Honored by King William III
In 1888, Dorus Rijkers met King William III of the Netherlands after rescuing sailors from the German barque Renown.
The King gave Dorus a gold medal of honor and smoked a pipe with him.
In 1911, Dorus retired at age 64, after which he received only a very small pension.
He struggled to make ends meet by eating simple food and living plainly.
During an October 1922 interview with Dr. L.A. Rademaker, editor of the Hague newspaper 'Het Vaderland', Dorus complained about his situation.
He claimed that he had been forced to sell the gold medal of honour in order to buy himself a bicycle.
The Helden der Zee Fonds 'Dorus Rijkers' (Dorus Rijkers Fund for the Heroes of the Sea) was created after Dorus' plight and that of other retired life-savers were chronicled in 'Het Vaderland'.
In April 1928, Dorus Rijkers died at the age of 81.
He was given a funeral that was so grand that it resembled a state funeral in size and style.
There was music, a big parade, thousands who came to pay their last respects including a large number of Marine Officers, also high ranking government officials, among them representatives of the Ministry of the Marine.
The grandeur of his funeral showed the great public esteem in which Dorus was held at the time.
Dorus Rijkers had become a national hero and was by far the most popular Dutchman of those years (according to a poll that surveyed many people in the Netherlands during the 1920s).
There is a very large statue in honor of all the Netherlands sea-rescuers, opened in 1935.
This statue is sometimes mistakenly assumed to be in honor of Dorus.
In fact, a separate, smaller statue of Dorus was erected in 1939   One of the rescue boats of the KNRM still carries his name with pride.
Dorus is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest rescuers of all time.
Streets named after Dorus Rijkers
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Alphen aan den Rijn
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Amersfoort
Dorus Rijkershof in Amsterdam
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Borne
Dorus Rijkersrede in Capelle aan den IJssel
Dorus Rijkersplein in Den Haag
Theodorus Rijkersstraat in Den Helder
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Dinteloord
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Dordrecht
Dorus Rijkersplein in Egmond aan Zee
Dorus Rijkerssstraat in Genemuiden
Dorus Rijkerssstraat in Groningen
Dorus Rijkerskade in Leiden
Dorus Rijkersweg in Leiden
Dorus Rijkerstraat in Middelburg
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Reeuwijk
Dorus Rijkersstraat in Terneuzen
Bremer, Jan.  the chapter: 'Dorus Rijkers (1847-1928); Koning der Blauwe zeeridders' in 'Roeiredders aan het Marsdiep 1824-1923'; Nationaal Reddingmuseum Dorus Rijkers and the Helderse Historische Vereniging, Den Helder; November 1998, .
111–140.
This book forms is volume 9 of the series: Helderse Historische Reeks. (
Jan T. Bremer is a well-informed, serious author on especially historical/geographical matters about the Noordkop (the region around Den Helder in The Netherlands).
Adema, Tjeerd. '
Dorus Rijkers; De Heldersche Menschenredder'; ; published by Egner in Helder (not: Den Helder) in 1928.
National Savior's Museum - Dorus Rijkers (part of the website Marine Attraction Park - Cape Holland)
Foundation "mrb Dorus Rijkers" - historical information and photographs
Website of the KNRM
People from North Holland
Prince of Wales is a royal title.
It is usually held by the eldest son of the King or Queen of the United Kingdom.
The title is not automatic, but is given by the reigning monarch.
When a person becomes King or Queen, their eldest son immediately becomes Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay.
The current Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, was born in 1948, and was known as Prince Charles of Edinburgh (his father is The Duke of Edinburgh).
In 1952, his mother became Queen, and he became The Duke of Cornwall (in Scotland he was called The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay).
In 1969, the Queen made him Prince of Wales, and he is now called Prince of Wales, except in Scotland, where he is still The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay.
King George II created his son, Prince Frederick, Prince of Wales.
When Frederick died, the King made Frederick's eldest son, George, Prince of Wales.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
MIT has five schools and one college, and it has 32 academic departments, and gives much importance to scientific and technological research.
MIT students, graduates, and faculty members are famous for being given many awards, including 76 Nobel Prizes.
In 2013 QS ranked MIT as the best university in the world.
It started in 1861.
It is one of the most selective universities.
It accepted 8.9% of people who applied for class of 2016.
Nine months' tuition and fees for 2012–2013 is $42,050.
MIT gives financial aid so that anyone who is good enough can pay.
In 2011-2012 64% of undergraduates had some kind of financial aid.
The student:faculty ratio is 8:1.
45% of undergraduates are women.
The most popular major is engineering.
MIT, official web site
MyMIT, admissions web site
MIT Alumni Association
MIT OpenCourseWare, Free online publication of nearly all MIT course materials
The Tech, student newspaper, the world's first newspaper on the web
Tech Talk, MIT's official newspaper
Technology Review, alumni magazine
MIT Press, university press & publisher
MIT Maps
Early Maps of both the Boston and Cambridge Campuses  maintained by MIT's Institute Archives & Special Collections
19th-century establishments in Massachusetts
It was aired on Comedy Central Monday to Thursday, starting October 17, 2005.
The last episode aired on December 18, 2014.
It was a spin-off of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Colbert acts as if he is very conservative, as a parody.
His show makes fun of different conservative political commentary shows, especially Bill O'Reilly's show The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.
The show also has many guests, usually one each night on the last part of his show.
They are authors, actors, politicians, musicians and others.
He also sometimes has other guests in other segments in his show, such as Congress members in his "Better Know a District" segment.
The show is directed by Jim Hoskinson.
Colbert has also written three books with the writers of his show.
The first book from 2007 is called I Am America (And So Can You!)
as the character he plays on television.
The show won two Emmy Awards in 2013.
It ended in December 2014.
Colbert Nation
2014 American television series endings
was the pen name of a Japanese writer.
He is known for writing haiku of free verse.
His real name was Taneda Shouichi (種田正一).
e-texts of Santoka's works at Aozora Bunko
Weeds, Falling Rain  a selection of Zen Haikai by Santoka Taneda, translated by Okami
Santoka - a biography and poems
SANTOKA by Kametaro
Fire on the Mountain: The Selected Haiku of a Wandering Zen Monk Taneda Santoka  translated by Hisashi Miura and James Green
SANTOKA and SAKE by endoy
Cid (Sidney) Corman (June 29, 1924 – March 12, 2004) was an American poet well known for editing the magazine Origin.
Thirty-one poems
Cid Corman on poetry over the radio, October 1952
CID CORMAN & ORIGIN PRESS
A large collection of Cid Corman's manuscripts is held at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin
Additional papers (1942-76) are held in the Special Collections library at Kent State University
Additional papers (1962-1964) are held in the Special Collections library at Washington University, Saint Louis
An essay on Corman
New Origin Web site
About.com  Web page on Corman
obituary in The Guardian of London
Lenard Duane Moore (born February 13, 1958) is an American writer.
He was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
He has written more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays and literary criticism.
He has been writing and publishing haiku for 25 years.
Lenard's poetry has been translated into several languages.
He has written the following:
Poems of Love & Understanding (Carlton Press, 1982)
The Open Eye (NC Haiku Society Press, 1985)
Forever Home (St. Andrews College Press, 1992)
Desert Storm: A Brief History (Los Hombres Press, 1993)
1983, 1994, 2003 Haiku Museum of Tokyo Award
1987-1988 Japan Air Lines Haiku Contest Finalist out of 40,000 entries
1992 First Prize Winner in Traditional Style Haiku,Mainichi Daily News:Tokyo, JAPAN
1992 Third Prize Harold G. Henderson Award, Haiku Society of America
1996 Indies Arts Award
1997 Margaret Walker Creative Writing Award
1998 Tar Heel of the Week Award
1998-2000 Cave Canem Fellow
2000 Alumni Achievement Award
2001 The Heron's Nest Award, First Runner-up for poem "summer moon-"
2006 Sam Ragan Fine Arts Award for contributing to the fine arts of North Carolina
Writers from North Carolina
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat.
He won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Pegasos biography
Nobel museum biography and list of works
Octavio Paz's complete poems and essays from Vuelta magazine and literary criticism on his work
Octavio Paz: 'La verdad contra el compromiso'
Cancer deaths in Mexico
Mexican businesspeople
Mexican Nobel Prize winners
Mexican writers
Raymond Roseliep (August 11, 1917 – December 6, 1983) was a poet.
He wrote haiku.
He was a Catholic priest.
He has been described as "the John Donne of Western haiku".
Selected Roseliep haiku
An academic analysis of the poems of Roseliep
Writers from Iowa
Kenneth Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American writer.
He was one of the first poets in the United States to write in traditional Japanese poetic forms such as haiku.
Rexroth is known as one of the main figures in the San Fransisco Renaissance.
In Fall 2006, the literary journal Chicago Review  published a special issue on Rexroth that includes a large collection of his correspondence, an interview conducted by Bradford Morrow, and several essays and poems in his honor.
Introduction to Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Rexroth Archive, a collection of works by and about Rexroth
A biography of Kenneth Rexroth - focussing on his anarchist and working class politics
Kenneth Rexroth , from the Anarchist Encyclopedia
Communalism, Seabury 1972, e-text
A Life of Kenneth Rexroth - R book reviews ; Fall, 1993; Donald Gutierrez; Literary Review
On Rexroth's Poetry; 1999; Donald K. Gutierrez; Modern American Poetry; Univ.
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Sonia Sanchez is an African-American poet.
She is known for being part of the Black Arts Movement.
Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934.
She studied at Hunter College, and New York University.
She founded the Black Studies program at San Francisco State University.
She was poet-in-residence at Temple University.
She has written over twelve books of poetry.
She has also written plays and children's books.
Academy of American Poets
Sonia Sanchez Biography at Voices from the Gap
Approaches to Teaching Sonia Sanchez's Poetry
An Evening with Sonia Sanchez
Painted Voices: Sonia Sanchez Biography
Women of Color Women of Word
Sonia Sanchez Biography at Speak Out
Sonia Sanchez Article at the Heath Anthology of American Literature
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American writer.
He is also an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.
Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Since the 1970s, he has often been called the "laureate of Deep Ecology."
Since the 1950s, he has published travel-journals and essays.
Lannan Foundation, Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder 2001 (see Wendell Berry entry for link)
1991 audio interview with Gary Snyder by Don Swaim of CBS Radio - RealAudio
Gary Snyder - Books, Selected Poems, Prose and Biography - in Russian
Blue Neon Alley - Selected Poems, Quotes and Directory
Shambala Sun article "The Wild Mind Of Gary Snyder" by Trevor Carolan
Modern American Poetry Collection - Ball State University Archives and Special Collections Research Center - Other website
was a pseudonym of Japanese conceptual artist  (born 27 March 1937, died 26 October 2014).
He started the art group Hi-Red Center with Jiro Takamatsu and Natsuyuki Nakanishi in 1963.
Akasegawa helped to start the "Roadside Observation" art group (路上観察学会 in Japanese) with Terunobu Fujimori in 1986.
He also created the word Tomason to describe a kind of found art.
Tomason are parts of buildings that seem useless, but are interesting.
He used another pen name  for novels.
He won the Akutagawa Prize in 1981 for a short story called "Chichi ga kieta".
超芸術トマソン (Chōgeijutsu Tomason), Byakuya shobō, 1985.
Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1987, .
仙人の桜、俗人の桜 : にっぽん解剖紀行 (Sennin no sakura, zokujin no sakura), JTB Nihon Kotsu Kosha Shuppan Jigyokyoku, 1993, .
東京ミキサー計画 (Tōkyō mikisā keikaku), PARCO, 1984.
Reissue: Chikuma bunko, 1994, .
Japanese photographers
Aries is the astrological Zodiac sign that represents the constellation Aries.
In the tropical zodiac, Aries is from March 21 to April 20 beginning at the vernal equinox.
Under the sidereal zodiac, it is now from April 15 to May 15.
The opposite sign to Aries is Libra.
The corresponding month in the Babylonian calendar is Arax Nisânu, which is made for Anu.
This sign for Aries was made from many stars which made up the head of the Aries (constellation) .
The head of Aries is called Aluathay or Salhay and it is made up of four stars.
In mythology Aries is related to Greek myth of the ram which carried Athamas's son Phrixus and daughter Helle to Colchis away from their evil stepmother Ino.
This ram is also related to Theseus, from the Greek myth of the Minotaur.
Traditional relationships with Aries
Birthstone= Diamond, Aquamarine
Starstone= Amethyst
Colours= Red, White, Pink
Metal= Gold, Bronze
Taurus is an astrological sign, which is with the constellation (a group of stars that make the shape of an animal or person) of the same name.
Under the tropical zodiac, Taurus is occupied by the Sun from April 20 to May 20, and under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from May 14 to June 19.
In mythology, Taurus is often with the Greek myth of the bull-form taken by Zeus in order to win Europa.
Taurus is also associated with the Greco-Roman goddess Aphrodite/Venus and sometimes also the goddesses Hera/Juno, Ishtar, Isis, Freyja, and Frigg and the gods Pan, Dionysus/Bacchus, Xolotl, and Quetzalcoatl.
Traditional relationships with Taurus
Birthstone=Emerald
Colors= Pink, Green, Pale Blue
Gemstones= Diamond, Emerald
Metal= Silver,Copper
Famous people born in Taurus
Trent Reznor - singer, producer, composer of Nine Inch Nails
Fred Astair - stage dancer, actor, singer
George Clooney - actor, film director
Elizabeth II - royalty
Ulysses S. Grant - eighteenth president of the United States of America
Janet Jackson - singer, actress
Joe Louis - boxer
Jack Nicholson - actor
Michelle Pfieffer - actress
Sergei Prokofiev - composer
Sugar Ray Robinson - boxer
James Stewart - actor
Orson Wells - film director, film producer, radio producer, screenwriter
Stevie Wonder - musician
Malcolm X - civil rights activist, philosopher
Audrey Hepburn - actress
David Beckham - athlete
Jessica Alba - actress
Penelope Cruz - actress
Katharine Hepburn - actress
Miranda Kerr - model
Linda Evangelista - model
Miranda Cosgrove - actress and singer
mark zuckerberg-facebook
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (some people call it T2) is a 1991 American action-science fiction movie set in Los Angeles.
It was directed, co-produced, and co-written by James Cameron, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong and Robert Patrick.
It is the second movie of the series, the 1984 movie The Terminator was the first, and picks up ten years after the events of the first movie.
It follows Sarah Connor, her 10-year-old son John, and a helper from the future (as in the first movie), as they try to stop Judgment Day, a day in the future when machines will start to kill all humans.
T2 was a good movie as audience and critics say.
It had an impact on people, and is known by many to have had power in the genres of action and science fiction.
The movie's visual effects include many discoveries in computer made special effects, marking the first use of natural human movement for a CG character and the first computer made main character.
In 1995, eleven years after Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) killed the original Terminator that was sent to kill her with the help of kyle reese, two men arrive in Los Angeles from the year 2029.
The first is a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) identical to the one that Sarah first met, while the second is an unknown man (Robert Patrick).
John Connor (Edward Furlong) is now living with foster parents.
He has grown up being told by his mother that he would someday lead the human race to beat the machines.
Sarah has changed a lot because since the first movie - being stronger in mind and body - making people think she is crazy, and so she is sent to a mental hospital - Pescadero State Hospital.
Meanwhile, the Terminator and the unknown man both find John Connor in a shopping mall.
Then, there is a twist: the unknown man is not the one who is ment to stop John getting killed, as the people watching thought so based on the first movie.
The killing machine from the first movie is now the one ment to stop John getting killed, and the other man is another Terminator trying to kill John.
When the good Terminator rescues John, he tells him what is happening.
He is a Model 101, made by the future John Connor to act as the one to keep him from harm.
The other Terminator is a T-1000, sent to kill him.
It is made of mimetic polyalloy, or liquid metal, making it able to morph anyone or anything of equal size, except "complex machines" like "guns and explosives" because they "have chemicals, moving parts."
It can however form "knives and stabbing weapons."
When John learns that the T-1000 will copy Sarah and then kill her, he and the Terminator go to rescue her.
Sarah is very afraid by it, but after seeing it fight off the T-1000, she accepts that they need its help.
As they escape the city, the Terminator tells her about the future of Skynet, the supercomputer that will get rid of humans.
He tells her about its maker, Miles Bennet Dyson (Joe Morton), who makes a learning computer that suddenly becomes self-aware on August 4, 1997.
It begins learning very quickly, and on August 29, 1997, it launches nuclear missiles that kills most humans.
Sarah, John, and the Terminator arrive in the desert at her friend Enrique Salceda’s camp, who has kept an underground weapons stash in the event that the war does happen.
Sarah plans to take John and flee over the line that is between the US and Mexico.
While at the camp, she finds out that by killing Dyson, she can stop Skynet from being made, stopping the war with the machines.
After she leaves, John and the Terminator figure out what she is going to do and take off after her.
At Dyson's home, Sarah tries to shoot him with sniper rifle, but when she misses, she finds that she can not kill him up close in front of his family.
When John and the Terminator arrive, they tell Dyson of the bad things that will happen of his research.
They make sure he knows why they must break all the things to do with his chip idea, including the CPU and arm from the first Terminator.
Sarah, John, the Terminator, and Dyson break into the Cyberdyne building and find the parts from the first Terminator.
While make bombs to blow up the rest, security tells the police who show up in force.
When the SWAT team enters the building, they shoot Dyson quite a few times which really hurts him, he stays behind to press the button to blow the place up.
They leave in a SWAT van, with the T-1000 chasing them, first in a helicopter, then a liquid nitrogen truck.
The truck crashes into a steel mill, this makes the tank to open and liquid nitrogen to spill all over the place, freezing the T-1000.
Even though the Terminator breaks him into many small pieces by shooting him, they thaw and come back together.
The T-1000 and Model 101 begin to fight hand to hand, with the T-1000 stabbing him through the power cell with a metal pole, switching him off.
The T-1000 then goes to hunt John, he turns himself into a Sarah copy.
As John finds the two Sarah's, the Terminator, who had turned itself back on using a different power source, shoots the T-1000 with a grenade launcher, throwing it back into a pit of molten metal, melting it.
After John throws the parts from the first Terminator into the molten metal, the Terminator tells him that he too must die to stop his technology from being used to create Skynet.
He tells Sarah that he cannot kill himself, and she must lower him into the steel.
As he goes down, he reaches up with a thumbs up, the last thing to go under.
The movie ends with a dark highway at night, and Sarah's repetition of the phrase that Reese told her in the first movie. "
The future is not set."
Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Script
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Christy Nicole Turlington (born January 2, 1969) is an American supermodel.
She grew up in Danville, California.
Her father was British commercial pilot.
Her mother was a Salvadoran flight attendant.
Turlington is best known for representing Calvin Klein perfumes.
She has done this since 1987.
She has also worked on various campaigns for Maybelline and Giorgio Armani.
She has appeared in several movies about the fashion industry.
Premier is sometimes used instead of Prime Minister.
But it is also the title of the leader of the government in some territories.
British Colonies
When a colony is first allowed to elect its own government the head of the government is called the Chief Minister.
As the colony gets more able to rule itself it is given more powers and the title  of the Chief Minister is changed to Premier.
When the colony becomes independent the Premier becomes a Prime Minister, and British government ministers lose any authority to rule the new country.
Australia and Canada
The leader of the federal governments in Australia and Canada is called the prime minister, but the leader of the governments in Australian States and Canadian Provinces is called the Premier.
This is because the states and provinces are not independent.
Hispanidad (literally Hispanicness) is the community formed by all the people and nations that share Spanish language and culture.
The 23 nations included are all Spanish-speaking except the Philippines, and can be classified in four geographic areas: Spain, Hispanoamerica,  Hispanoafrica and the Hispanopacific.
Every October 12  Hispanic Day is celebrated.
Hispanidad or Spanish linguistic and cultural diffusion began when the 12 October 1492 Christopher Columbus sighted America and initiated the European colonization in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain.
The kingdom of Castile (Castilla) built a global empire, spreading their culture and language in the Americas and biologically and culturally mixing with the indigenous peoples, altering the composition of the hemisphere.
The penetration and reach of Spain at this time also extended into other European nations.
The Hispanics in the world
The Spanish is the mother tongue that spoken by more than 333 million people (in second place after Chinese).
The total number of Spanish-speakers is more than 395 million people.
In Europe, Hispanics are mainly confined to Spain.
There are more than 30 million of them.
Most Hispanics are in Hispanic America .
There are more than 300 million.
Countries like Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela .
Hispanics in the African continent are mostly in overseas territories of Spain (Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and Plazas de Soberanía) and in the nation of Equatorial Guinea.
In Morocco and Western Sahara some people maintain Hispanic characteristics.
Altogether in Africa two million speak Spanish.
Asia-Pacific
Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, where Chamorro, a language with a lot of Spanish loanwords is spoken.
Caroline Islands, which nowadays are divided between the Federated States of Micronesia in the eastern part, and Palau.
Easter Island, nowadays an overseas territory of Chile.
Spanish is the official language of the island.
"Pavilionul Hispanitate"
Aviation refers to flying using an aircraft, like an aeroplane.
It also includes the activities and industries related to flight, such as air traffic control.
The biggest of the many uses of aviation are in air travel and military combat.
Humans first built devices to fly in the air a long time ago.
In the sixth century, Yuan Huangtou from China created a kite.
Some primitive types of parachutes and gliders were also created in North Africa.
The modern age of aviation started on November 21, 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers flew in their hot air balloon.
Airships followed.
On December 17, 1903, the  Wright brothers flew the first flight in an aeroplane which was heavier than air; their invention is known as the first aeroplane.
Military aircraft became somewhat important in World War I. In the 1930s airliners began carrying many passengers.
Jet engines began flying in fighter aircraft in World War II and in airliners in the 1950s.
Cyberpunk is a kind of science fiction.
The Cyberpunk genre began in the early 1980s.
Bruce Bethke made this word for his 1980 short story "Cyberpunk" by putting together two words: "cybernetics" and "punk rock".
Cyberpunk authors put their stories in different settings.
The time is usually set in the near-future and the settings are often dystopian (characterized by misery).
Often, only a few huge corporations control the society.
These corporations control the technology.
Instead of being beneficial to all, technology is used by the few corporations for their own interests only.
Many cyberpunk novels are about individual computer users.
One hero fights a computer/Internet controlled society.
Common themes in cyberpunk include advances in information technology and especially the Internet, artificial intelligence and prosthetics and post-democratic societal control where corporations have more influence than governments.
Nihilism, post-modernism, and film noir techniques are common elements, and the protagonists may be disaffected or reluctant anti-heroes.
Earlier books that influenced Cyberpunk
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (
made into the movie: Blade Runner)
Important authors and books
William Gibson - Neuromancer and Burning Chrome
Bruce Sterling - Editor of Mirrorshades anthology
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (1992)
Pat Cadigan - Mindplayers
Rudy Rucker - The Ware Series
John Shirley - Heatseeker
Blade Runner (1982) is an important example of the cyberpunk visual style.
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo is an example of cyberpunk in manga and anime.
Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria.
It is spoken by more than 18 million people.
Igbo is a tonal language.
The language is written in the Roman script.
Niger-Congo languages
Wind shear is a difference in either wind speed or direction over a fairly short distance in the atmosphere.
Wind shear can be divided into two different types: horizontal and vertical wind shear.
When wind shear is observed
At weather fronts when the temperature difference across the front is 5 °C or more, and the front moves at 15 kt or faster.
At low level jets when a significant low level vertical wind shear can develop near the lower portion of the low level jet.
At mountains when winds blow over and create vertical shear on the lee side.
At inversions when on a clear and calm night a radiation inversion is formed near the ground.
At downbursts when an outflow boundary moves away from a thunderstorm.
At sailing when wind shear affects sailboats by presenting a different wind speed and direction at different heights along the sailing mast.
National Science Digital Library - Wind shear
Polar cyclones (also known as Arctic Cyclones) are large areas of low pressure.
They should not be confused with polar lows since people happen to use the same term for polar cyclones.
Polar cyclones are usually 1,000 to 2,000 kilometers wide in which the air is moving in a spiral counterclockwise fashion in the northern hemisphere.
The reason for the rotation is the same as tropical cyclones, the Coriolis effect.
They also exist in places such as Greenland, the Eurasian Arctic area, and northern Canada, with about 15 cyclones per winter.
Polar cyclones can form in any time of the year, although summer polar cyclones are usually weaker than the ones that form in the winter.
Also, they are not closely studied and are rarely destructive since they happen in areas with little or no population.
One center is near Baffin Island and the other over northeast Siberia.
In the southern hemisphere, it is usually near the edge of the Ross ice shelf near 160 west longitude.
The Antarctic vortex of the Southern Hemisphere is a single low-pressure zone that is found near the edge of the Ross ice shelf, near 160 west longitude.
When the polar vortex is strong, the mid-latitude Westerlies (winds at the surface level between 30° and 60° latitude from the west) increase in strength and are persistent.
When the polar vortex is weak, high-pressure zones of the mid-latitudes may push poleward, moving the polar vortex, jet stream, and polar front equatorward.
The jet stream is seen to "buckle" and deviate south.
This rapidly brings cold dry air into contact with the warm, moist air of the mid-latitudes, resulting in a rapid and dramatic change of weather known as a "cold snap".
The polar vortex was first described as early as 1853.
The phenomenon's sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) develops during the winter in the Northern Hemisphere and was discovered in 1952 with radiosonde observations at altitudes higher than 20 km.
A deep freeze that gripped much of the United States and Canada in late January 2019 has been blamed on a polar vortex.
The US National Weather Service warned that frostbite is possible within just 10 minutes of being outside in such extreme temperatures, and hundreds of schools, colleges and universities in the affected areas were closed.
Around 21 people died in US due to severe frostbite.
States within the midwest region of the United States had windchills just above -50°F (-45°C), which is colder than the frozen tundra and Antarctica.
The Polar vortex has also thought to have had effects in Europe.
For example, the 2013–14 United Kingdom winter floods were blamed on the Polar vortex bringing severe cold in the United States and Canada.
Similarly, the severe, brutal cold in the United Kingdom in the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11 were also blamed on the Polar vortex.
Polar cyclones are low-pressure zones embedded within the polar air masses, and exist year-round.
Horizontally, most polar vortices have a radius of less than .
Since polar vortices exist from the stratosphere downward into the mid-troposphere, a variety of heights/pressure levels are used to mark its position.
The 50 mb pressure surface is most often used to identify its stratospheric location.
At the level of the tropopause, the extent of closed contours of potential temperature can be used to determine its strength.
Others have used levels down to the 500 hPa pressure level (about  above sea level during the winter) to identify the polar vortex.
Duration and power
Polar vortices are weakest during summer and strongest during winter.