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Each World Heritage Site is part of the legal territory of the nation where the site is located.
UNESCO wants everyone in the world to work to protect each site.
Sometimes UNESCO provides funds to help protect a site.
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant have destroyed some sites.
Selection criteria
Until the end of 2004, there were six criteria for cultural heritage sites and four criteria for natural heritage sites.
In 2005, a single set of ten criteria replaced the old cultural and natural heritage criteria.
To qualify as a World Heritage Site, nominated sites must meet at least one of the ten criteria; they must also be of "outstanding universal value."
If a site meets both cultural and natural criteria, it is called a "mixed site".
Cultural criteria
"represents a masterpiece of human creative genius and cultural significance"
"exhibits an important interchange of human values, over a span of time, or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning, or landscape design"
<li>"to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared"<li>
"is an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural, or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates a significant stage in human history"
"is an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture, or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change"
"is directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance"
Natural criteria
"contains superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance"
"is an outstanding example representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features"
"is an outstanding example representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems, and communities of plants and animals"
"contains the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation"
Legal status of designated sites
UNESCO designation as a World Heritage Site provides prima facie evidence that such culturally sensitive sites are legally protected pursuant to the Law of War, under the Geneva Convention, its articles, protocols and customs, together with other treaties including the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and international law.
"Article 53.
PROTECTION OF CULTURAL OBJECTS AND OF PLACES OF WORSHIP.
Without prejudice to the provisions of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict of 14 May 1954,' and of other relevant international instruments, it is prohibited:
(a) To commit any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples;
(b) To use such objects in support of the military effort;
(c) To make such objects the object of reprisals."
List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites — Official website
World Heritage Site – Smithsonian Ocean Portal
TIME magazine.
The Oscars of the Environment – UNESCO World Heritage Site
A tail is the section at the rear end of an animal's body.
Most animals have tails, like cats, dogs, whales, fish, cheetahs, and monkeys.
Ganesha or (Ganesh) is the elephant-headed god in Hinduism.
He is the son of Shiva and Parvati.
Ganesha is a very popular god in Hinduism, and was one of the most worshipped.
Hindu tradition states that Ganesha is a god of wisdom, success and good luck.
He is also the giver of different types of favors.
The Hindu tradition calls Ganesha as the Vighneshvara. "
Vighneshvara" in Sanskrit language means one who was the lord of obstacles or difficulties.
Thus, the Hindu tradition states that by worshiping Ganesha, one can remove all obstacles and difficulties.
His worship to God
There are many temples (mandirs) of Ganesha, however in many Hindu temples there are statues and carvings.
But, in most of the temples of Hindus, people worship Ganesha.
Hindu Tradition gives Ganesha an important place.
The tradition says that Hindus should worship their religious functions and ceremonies because he is the god of all obstacles.
Generally, many Hindus also worship Ganesha before starting any new thing.
Thus, for example, before occupying a new household
There are many stories of lord Ganesha's birth.
The popular and widely-held version is as follows:
A story says that one day, Goddess Parvati was taking a bath at home.
She did not want anyone to disturb her.
She created a boy with her powers, and told him to guard and not let anyone in.
When Lord Shiva came home, he wanted to come inside but the boy would not let him.
Lord Shiva asked his army to make him go away, but his army failed.
Finally, Shiva just cut the boy’s head off.
When Parvati had heard what had happened, she was angry.
She pleaded with Shiva to save him.
Lord Shiva sent his army to go find a head for Ganesha.
His army came back with an elephant head.
He has the head of an elephant.
He is shown with a big body, showing that the entire universe is inside him.
His colour is red, orange, or yellow.
Generally, he has four arms, and sometimes three eyes.
He carries a mala (garland) and certain other items like a lotus flower.
He sits generally with a bowl of sweets (laddus or modaks) before him.
A mouse or rat will be near Ganesha.
He uses a mouse (rat) as his mount (vahans).
Ganesha has several other names.
Some of his names are:
Gajanana
Heramba
Pillaiyar
Vinayaka
Ekdanta
Vakratunda
Krishnapingaksha
Gajavaktra
Bhalchandra
Vikatmev
Vighnaraj
Dhumravarna
Ganapati
Supradipa
Ganpati Bappa Morya
Shri Ganesha Pancharatnam Lyrics
Indie is a word that is short for independent.
When people talk about indie in music, they mean music that is made by people independently from major record labels (mainly rock and roll groups and artists).
Indie music could also be very experimental, meaning that people try out things like new or different sounds.
The styles can range from rock music to house music to pop music.
Independent artists
DaForce Dawg
Foals
Chad Valley
Raquels
The Cults
Tanupriya Kalita
Half-life (element), a property of radioactive elements
Half-Life (video game) is a 1998 video game made by Valve Software
Club Deportivo Chivas USA was an American football (soccer) team that played in Major League Soccer (MLS) in Carson, California.
They began play in 2005, and played at the home of the Los Angeles Galaxy.
When the team was formed, it was planned to be a "little brother" to the very popular Mexican team C.D. Guadalajara. "
Chivas", the Spanish word for "goats", is the nickname of C.D. Guadalajara.
The team was originally owned by two Mexican businessmen, one of whom also owned C.D. Guadalajara.
Due to falling attendance and ownership failures, MLS bought the team back in February 2014, with plans to sell it to new owners who would give the team a new name.
In September 2014, the team was sold to a new group.
As part of the sale, Chivas USA was dissolved at the end of the 2014 season.
A new team, Los Angeles FC, will start play in 2017 replacing the old Chivas USA.
2004 establishments in California
A unicycle
A sequence of events that repeat over and over again, for example: the cycle of the seasons
A group of poems or songs that belong in a group together
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (October 30, 1966 - June 7, 2006) was the leader of the Iraq branch of al-Qaeda, a terrorist group in the Middle East.
He was born in Zarqa, Jordan.
He was killed by a bomb that was fired by the USAF into the house he was in at the time in Hibhib, Iraq.
Zarqawi beheading victims
Salta is a province in the north of Argentina.
It has a population of 1,000,000.
Tourist Secretary
Salta
Universidad Nacional de Salta
Welcome Salta
Fermat's primality test is an algorithm.
It can test if a given number p is probably prime.
There is a flaw however: There are numbers that pass the test, and that are not prime.
These numbers are called Carmichael numbers.
Fermat's little theorem states that if p is prime and , then
If we want to test if n is prime, then we can pick random a'''s in the interval and see if the equation above holds.
If the equality does not hold for a value of a, then n is composite (not prime).
If the equality does hold for many values of a, then we can say that n is probably prime, or a pseudoprime.
It may be in our tests that we do not pick any value for a such that the equality fails.
Any a such that
when n is composite is known as a Fermat liar.
If we do pick an a such that
then a is known as a Fermat witness for the compositeness of n.'' is the modulo operation.
Its result is what remains, if p is divided by n. As an example,
What this test is used for
The RSA algorithm for public-key encryption can be done in such a way that it uses this test.
This is useful in cryptography.
The Hash function is a function.
When a computer program is written, very often, large amounts of data need to be stored.
These are normally stored as hash tables.
In order to find the data again, some value is calculated.
This is like when someone reads a book, and to remember, they put what they read into their own words.
Hash values are much the same, except that care is taken that different sets of data do not get the same hash value (this is called a hash collision).
A cryptographic hash function is a kind that is used in cryptography.
Its hash value is a fixed-size, alphanumeric string, and may also be called a 'message digest', 'digital fingerprint', 'digest' or 'checksum'.
In the Christian religion, the Trinity is an idea used to explain that three different persons are called God: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (who is sometimes called the Holy Ghost).
Trinity states that these three all form the same God.
Before the idea was made dogma, at the First Council of Nicaea, there were also other ideas on how to solve the problem.
These included:
God adopted Jesus during baptism (known as Adoptionism)
Jesus was all God, and only appeared to be human (Docetism)
The three lived together like a family (Tritheism)
Only God the Father is the true God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are not.
This position was popular with Arius and his followers
Where the word Trinity is from
The English word "Trinity" comes from Latin "Trinitas",  meaning "the number three".
This abstract noun is formed from the adjective trinus (three each, threefold, triple), as the word unitas is the abstract noun formed from unus (one).
The corresponding word in Greek is "" (Trias), meaning "a set of three" or "the number three."
The first recorded use of this Greek word in Christian theology was by Theophilus of Antioch in about 170.
He did not speak about the Trinity of god.
He wrote: "In like manner also the three days which were before the luminaries, are types of the Trinity [], of God, and His Word, and His wisdom.
And the fourth is the type of man, who needs light, that so there may be God, the Word, wisdom, man."
About a century later, in 325, the First Council of Nicaea established the doctrine of the Trinity as orthodoxy and adopted the Nicene Creed that described Christ as "God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance (homoousios) with the Father."
The Trinity in Christian texts
Many but not all Christians worship God in the form of the Trinity.
In the Old Testament there are several places where there seems to be evidence for a Trinity.
Genesis 1:26 states that God said "Let us make man in our image".
Deuteronomy 6:4 states that “The Lord our God is one Lord”.
The word that has been translated as one can also be translated as united.
The Trinity is also implied in the New Testament, though that term is not used.
Jesus never explained it fully in his teaching to people, but made a number of claims to be God.
The disciple John was one of Jesus' best friends on Earth, so understood Jesus better than many other people.
He starts his gospel by saying "In the beginning was the Word.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God."
He calls Jesus "the Word" because Jesus was how God told people about himself.
In John 8:58, Jesus said "before Abraham was even born, I AM!"
I AM is what God said his name was to Moses, meaning that he is always there anywhere in time or space.
In John 10:30 and 10:38, he tells people "The Father and I are one."
and "the Father is in me, and I am in the Father."
Lastly, he forgave people for sins, which only God can do.
When Jesus came the early Christians had to make sense of the fact that God had come among them through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew wrote in his gospel: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
Several things in the gospel of John are often thought to point to a God who is more than just one being.
The three persons of God are also mentioned in the second book of Corinthians.
It was several hundred years after the life of Jesus before many Christians accepted the idea that God was a Trinity.
It was a difficult idea, because the Hebrew scriptures talk about God being One.
The Greeks and the Romans could only understand Christ as a person who was bringing God’s Word.
It was not until the 4th century that the doctrine of the Trinity was fully developed in more technical and theological terms.
This was established by the Council of Nicaea in 325 where, in the debate with Arius over the nature, incarnation and pre-existence of Jesus, the Son of God was explained as being of one substance (homoousios) with the Father.
Christians had held to Tri-Unity of God for centuries prior to this, and referred to Jesus as "God" and spoke in Trinitarian language even before Nicaea codified the terminology (for example, see 1 Clement, the Epistle of Barnabas, the letters of Ignatius etc.).
In the 5th century Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland.
There is an old Irish legend which says that Patrick used the shamrock to explain the idea of the Trinity.
The shamrock has three small leaves.
Patrick told the people that the three leaves represented God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
He said that the whole plant represented God.
In Christian churches the Sunday after Pentecost (the 50th day after Easter) is called the “Feast of the Holy Trinity”.
This feast probably started in the 10th century.
In 1334 Pope John XXII made it official for the whole church.
In the Anglican and Lutheran Churches the weeks that follow The Feast of the Trinity are dated   according to how many weeks after Trinity they are (e.g. the 20th Sunday after Trinity).
In the Roman liturgy these Sundays are dated “after Pentecoste” (e.g. the 21st Sunday after Pentecoste).
In other religions
Islam teaches that God is indivisible (can not be divided).
For this reason, several verses of the Qur'an teach that the doctrine of Trinity is blasphemous (against God).
The concept of the Trinity in Meitei religion also exist as Mangang Luwang Khuman.
Mošovce has existed for 770 years.
In this time people built many old and beautiful buildings.
King Andrew II wrote about the village for the first time in 1233.
At first, Mošovce had two parts: The first one, Machyuch, was in the area of today’s Starý Rad Street.
The village took its today's name from the second part, Terra Moys, which was in the place of the present day Vidrmoch Street.
Because of the name of the second part, which means "The Land of Mojš", we believe that all the village was the property of a certain Mr. Mojš.
His name could be a short form of a longer Slavic name Mojtech, similar to the names Vojtech or Mojmír.
In the history the name of the village changed from Mossovych, Mosocz, Mossowecz, villa regia Mayos alio nomine Mossovych, oppidioum Mayus sue Mosocz, Mosocz olim Mayus to the present-day Mošovce.
The name of a separate very old part of Mošovce, Chornukov, chaged to the modern form of Čerňakov.
Mošovce was at first a royal village, and in about 1350 changed into a privileged town, which belonged to the royal castle of Blatnica.
In 1527 the Révay family became its owners, and they took away the town privileges of Mošovce for almost 400 years.
In the past, Mošovce was an important craft center of the Turiec region.
Crafts were very successful, and there were around 15 guilds in the town; the bootmaker and the most famous furrier guild existed for the longest time.
The present-day Mošovce is an important tourist area with many interesting places.
One of the most interesting buildings is a small Rococo-Classical Palace with a big English park.
People built the palace in about 1750-1800 .
Other places in the town are: The birthplace of Ján Kollár, a Neo-gothic Catholic church with a valuable altar built on the place of an older church, a Lutheran church built in 1784, a Mausoleum, an Art-Nouveau greenhouse and a pavilion from 1800.
In the Mausoleum there is now a Museum of Crafts.
The nature around Mošovce is really beautiful.
A system of old roads with trees and small forests create a nice landscape.
This landscape looks nice with the forests of the Veľká Fatra Mountains.
This mountain range is one of the nicest ones in Slovakia.
People from all parts of the world come visit the beautiful Limestone and dolomite rocks, and the beautiful nature in the Blatnická and Gaderská Valleys, which are not far away.
Culture and traditions
Many important people were born in Mošovce.
The greatest ones are Frico Kafenda (1883-1963), composer; Anna Lacková-Zora (1899-1988), writer; Štefan Krčméry (1892-1955), literary critic, historian, and poet; Júr Tesák Mošovský, Baroque playwright; and Miloslav Schmidt, the founder of the amateur fire brigades in Slovakia.
Probably the most important person born in Mošovce is the great Slavic poet, philosopher, and Lutheran priest, Ján Kollár (1793-1852), who was very active in the literature of at least two nations.
He wrote a book of poems called Slávy Dcera.
His work was very important for the patriots and national activists, who lived at the same time as Kollár.
People translated the book into many Slavic and non-Slavic languages.
www.mosovce.sk Official webpage
Tourist Brochure
Info - Mošovce
Drienok
Cities in Slovakia
South Ossetia (, less commonly ), officially the Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania, or the Tskhinvali Region, is a de facto, disputed territory recognised as part of Georgia in the Caucasus region.
South Ossetia was a Soviet oblast (region) with some self-rule and controlled big parts of the region.
When it declared its independence in 1990, Georgia tried to take back the region by force and it led to the 1991-1992 South Ossetia War.
Georgia tried to retake South Ossetia again in 2004 and in 2008.
In 2008, Ossetia's fighters were backed by Russian troops and they gained full control of the region, but its separation from Georgia has only been recognized by three other countries (Russia, Nicaragua and Venezuela) and Abkhazia (a similar place), and it is de jure (officially) a part of the Georgian region (mkhare) of Shida Kartli.
Internationally regarded as a Russian occupied territory of Georgia, Georgia itself refuses to recognize rebel South Ossetia as an independent state; the government calls it by the medieval name of Samachablo or, more recently, Tskhinvali region (after the republic's capital).
South Ossetia is a geographical state that borders North Ossetia-Alania to the north which is not an independent entity due to it being part of Russia.
Sometimes, South Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Abkhazia are named collectively as post-Soviet "frozen conflict" zones.
South Ossetia is situated at central Caucasus, a border between Asia and Europe.
It occupies a part of Greater Caucasus range and the foothills of Kartalin Valley.
South Ossetia is a very mountainous region.
North Ossetia
A soprano is a female singer with a high voice.
Young boys who sing, and also girls, are usually called trebles.
The word “soprano” can also refer to the top line of choir music.
This would be sung by sopranos or trebles.
Soprano is also used as a name for high pitched instruments, such as a soprano saxophone.
A dramatic soprano will sing big, dramatic roles such as Aida in Verdi's opera Aida.
A coloratura soprano will have a light voice which can bounce up to very high notes (the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute goes up to top F (2 ½ octaves above middle C).
A soubrette is usually the maid or a young girl who flirts.
A lyric soprano role needs a beautiful smooth voice, e.g. Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme.
A heavy dramatic soprano is needed in many of Wagner's operas, e.g. Isolde in Tristan und Isolde or Brunnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
In the 17th and 18th centuries many of the soprano roles were written for male sopranos.
Called a castrato, they were men who had their testicles removed before puberty so that their voices would remain high pitched.
Vocal ranges
The word alto can mean: someone who sings lower than a soprano.
Usually females with lower voices are called contraltos.
A male alto is a man who sings in a special way called falsetto.
In England male altos sing in church and cathedral choirs.
In some countries like Germany it is tradition to have boy altos in cathedral choirs.
These will probably be boys whose voices will soon be breaking and are starting to get lower.
One of the most famous contraltos was Kathleen Ferrier.
There are not so many female singers who call themselves contraltos these days.
It has become more fashionable to be a mezzo-soprano.
It is partly because it has become fashionable to use men for the alto parts in music by Bach and other Baroque composers, like it would have been performed in those days.
Operatic roles which need a contralto include Lucretia in Britten's Rape of Lucretia and Erda in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen.
The word alto'' can also mean: the second line down in 4 part choir music.
In old music the alto line was written in a special clef called the “alto clef”, which is the same as the “viola clef” (a C clef in which the middle line is middle C).
Altos in modern music
Sade Adu
Ily Matthew Maniano
Judith Holofernes
A tenor is a man with a high singing voice.
In opera the role of the young male is usually sung by a tenor.
Depending on characteristics such as: volume, color and style, the tenor voice is classified in following groups:
The light tenor.
This is also called tenor leggero.
An example is Peter Pears, who sang the tenor solos in Benjamin Britten’s operas.
The lyric tenor.
The lyric tenor is a tenor with a well timbered voice, such as "The Three Tenors" (Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras and Plácido Domingo).
The spinto tenor.
They have special abilities in the high tones, such as Franco Corelli and Enrico Caruso.
The dramatic tenor.
They have a high volume and a dark voice.
An example is Mario Del Monaco.
A “Heldentenor” (German for “hero tenor”) is someone with a big tenor voice.
This is suitable for heroic parts like the heroes in most of Wagner's operas.
Lauritz Melchior, Max Lorenz and Jonas Kaufmann are famous heroic tenors.
The Mozart tenor with characteristics including all of the previous mentioned must be able to perform within the strict borders which are laid out by the Mozart style.
Anton Dermota, Fritz Wunderlich and Francisco Araiza are the three leading people as Mozart tenor.
When writing four-part choir music the tenor line will be the third line down, between alto and bass.
It is usually written in the treble clef, but will sound an octave lower than written.
Sometimes, it is written in the "C-clef", which is also called a tenor clef.
This article is about the musical term.
For other uses, see Bass.
Bass is a low or deep tone (low end frequency) in music.
Low or deep tones are also called "low-pitched" tones, because the pitch is low.
It is usually made by a bass guitar or an acoustic bass (a double bass).
It can also be a deep, rumbling electronic sound made by a synthesizer, a deep singing voice, a baritone sax, or a deep bass drum.
Bass gives the well-rounded depth to music.
Bass almost always is used with treble sounds made by instruments such as a guitar, piano, a high singing voice, trumpet, or harmonica.
Famous baritone roles in opera include: Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is often thought of as the greatest baritone of the later 20th century.
He was famous as a Lieder singer as well as on the concert stage and in opera.
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Sappho was an Ancient Greek lyrical poet.
She was probably born around 630 BC on the island of Lesbos.
In the ancient world, Sappho's poetry was highly thought of.
Today, most of it has been lost.
Sappho presumably wrote about 10,000 lines of poetry, but only around 650 lines survive today.
Little is known for certain about Sappho's life.
Sappho's poetry centres on passion and love for both men and women.
The narrators of her poems often speak of infatuations and love for various women.
Descriptions of physical acts between women are few and open to debate.
Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work.
It would be like her style to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically.
What is known comes from three sources: Sappho's surviving poetry, other ancient writings about her, and evidence about archaic Greece in general.
She was born on the Greek island of Lesbos around 630 BC, in either Eresos or Mytilene.
Her parents' names are not known for certain, though her mother is often called Kleïs.
Ancient tradition gave at least eight possible names for her father.
One ancient story, which might be based on a now-lost poem by Sappho, says that her father died when Sappho was still a child.
Sappho was said to have three brothers, called Charaxos, Larichos, and Eurygios.
The "Brothers poem", discovered in 2014, talks about Charaxos and Larichos.
Sappho might have had a daughter called Kleïs (the same as her mother).
Two of Sappho's poems talk about her.
Not all historians agree that the Kleïs in Sappho's poems was Sappho's daughter.
Some have suggested that she was Sappho's lover instead.
But ancient sources call Kleïs Sappho's daughter, and some modern historians have argued that she must have been Sappho's daughter, not her lover.
Sappho's husband, the father of Kleïs, was said to be a rich trader named Kerkylas of Andros.
If Sappho was married, however, this was definitely not her husband's name: it is a joke from a comedy about Sappho's life.
Sappho is best known for writing lyric poetry, a type of poetry which was sung and accompanied by the music of a lyre.
Most of her poetry focusses on the lives of women.
Much of this was love poetry, but she also wrote hymns, wedding songs, and poetry about her family.
Some ancient sources say that Sappho wrote epigrams, elegiacs, and iambics (three other types of poetry with different metres to lyric poetry) as well as lyric poetry.
However, none of these survive, and probably Sappho did not write in these styles.
Three epigrams attributed to Sappho survive, but they were written much later, probably in the Hellenistic period.
Ancient texts of Sappho's poems survive from as early as the third century BC, and as late as the seventh century AD.
By the medieval period, Sappho's poetry had been lost, until in the sixteenth century newly printed editions of ancient authors such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, who had quoted Sappho's Ode to Aphrodite, began to be produced.
Since the second half of the nineteenth century, archaeologists have discovered many fragments of ancient copies of Sappho's poetry, and the amount of her work known has almost doubled.
Sappho : the "Brothers poem" (discov.
2014) (text, transl.,
audio, recited in Greek by Ioannis Stratakis)
7th-century BC births
6th-century BC deaths
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
The book was released on 21 July 2003.
It is about Harry's his fifth year at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Lord Voldemort has come back.
Except for Albus Dumbledore, most people do not believe him.
A movie based on the book was released in 2007.
The fifth book deals with Harry trying to make everyone else realise that Lord Voldemort has come back.
Dumbledore, the Order, and Harry's friends are the only people that believe that he has returned.
At the end of the book, Harry, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and some of their friends go to the Ministry of Magic (the headquarters of the people who lead the magical world) because Harry thinks his godfather is in danger.
It turns out it was a trick using mind magic, and his godfather (Sirius Black), is murdered by Bellatrix Lestrange.
They are attacked by some of their enemies.
At the end, Voldemort comes, but Dumbledore saves Harry from him, and all the other wizards see Voldemort and know Harry is telling the truth.
Harry is then returned to Hogwarts where Dumbledore tells him everything that he needs to know about the prophecy and why Voldemort tried to murder him when he was a child.
Extended plot wikibook
Movies about giants
48 states of the United States (except New Jersey and Virginia) have a state song, chosen by the state legislature as a symbol of the state.
Some states have more than one official state song.
Songs, List of U.S. state
The Pleiades (also known as M45 or the Seven Sisters) are a group of stars in the night sky.
You can see them in the constellation Taurus, the bull.
Charles Messier gave it the name M45.
They are named after the Pleiades in Greek mythology.
This an open star cluster of middle-aged hot B-type stars in the constellation of Taurus.
It is one of the nearest star clusters to Earth, and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky.
The cluster is dominated by hot blue and extremely luminous stars that have formed within the last 100 million years.
Open star clusters
Nicomachus (c. 60-c. 120, born in Gerasa, Roman Syria, now Jerash, Jordan).
He was one of the most important mathematicians of the ancient world.
He was strongly influenced by Aristotle and is best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetike eisagoge) and The Manual of Harmonics in Greek.
He was a Pythagorean.
In Introduction to Arithmetic, Nicomachus writes extensively on number, especially on the significance of prime numbers and perfect numbers and argues that arithmetic is the starting point that makes it possible to do the other mathematical sciences: geometry, music, and astronomy.
Deimos (or Mars II) comes from the Greek word for terror.
It is the smaller moon of Mars.
Its orbital period is 30.3 hours, which is 1.263 days.
Deimos is only 15 kilometers in diameter.
It is covered with craters, as Earth's moon and other bodies without an atmosphere are.
Discovery and naming
Deimos is not spherical with triaxial dimensions of 15 × 12.2 × 11 km.
Deimos is made up of rock rich in carbonaceous material.
It is has lots of craters.
Escape velocity from Deimos is 5.6 m/s. The apparent magnitude of Deimos is 12.45.
In case Phobos 1 succeeded, Phobos 2 could have been sent to Deimos.
Both probes launched successfully in July 1988.
In 1997 and 1998, the proposed Aladdin mission was selected.
The plan was to visit both Phobos and Deimos, and launch projectiles at the satellites.
The probe would collect the dust kicked into space as it made a slow flyby.
These samples would be returned to Earth for study three years later.
Also, the sample-return mission called Gulliver to Deimos, in bringing 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of material from Deimos to Earth.
Another concept of sample-return mission from Phobos and Deimos is OSIRIS-REx 2, which would use heritage from the first OSIRIS-REx.
In March 2014, a mission was proposed to place an orbiter on Mars orbit by 2021 and study Phobos and Deimos.
It is called Phobos And Deimos & Mars Environment (PADME).
Phobos (or Mars I) is one of Mars' moons.
The other is Deimos.
Phobos is the larger of the two moons, and is only 27 kilometers in diameter.
This is about as far as a car can travel on the highway in 15 minutes.
It is covered with craters, as Earth's moon is.
It is named after the god Phobos in Greek mythology.
Its name means "fear".
Phobos is trapped in tidal drag, with its orbit lowering roughly 1.8 meters per century.
In about 50 million years, Phobos will reach the Roche limit, where it is likely to be torn apart.
Some fragments will fall on Mars and some will form a planetary ring or rings around Mars.
The Soviet Union sent at least two space craft to this moon, Phobos 1 and Phobos 2.
Both failed or lost contact with Earth, but Phobos 2 managed to take some pictures of the moon in 1989 before dying.
There is one large crater on Phobos called Stickney.
It is  the size of the moon itself.
Charon is a moon of the dwarf planet Pluto.
It is half as wide as Pluto and is much like the dwarf planet itself.
It was discovered many years after Pluto.
They are sometimes considered a binary system, as Charon does not orbit Pluto, and Pluto does not orbit Charon.
They orbit a barycentre in space.
The moon is named after Charon in Greek mythology, a boatman who would carry the souls of dead people across the river Acheron to the underworld.
Charon was found by astronomer James Christy on June 22, 1978, when he was looking at highly blown up picture of Pluto on a photographic plate that taken a couple of months before.
Christy noticed that a slight bulge was able to be seen every now and then.
This finding was made public on July 7, 1978.
Later, the bulge was confirmed on plates dating back to April 29, 1965.
Later observations of Pluto were able to figure out that the bulge was due to a smaller body.
The orbit of the bulge fit in with Pluto's rotation period, which was already known from Pluto's light curve.
Any final doubts were erased when Pluto and Charon entered a five-year period of mutual eclipses between 1985 and 1990.
This happens when the Pluto-Charon orbital plane is edge-on as seen from Earth, which only happens at twice in Pluto's 248-year orbital period.
It was very lucky that one of these intervals happened to occur so soon after Charon's discovery.
Pictures showing Pluto and Charon as separate disks were taken for the first time by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s.
Later, after a new technology called adaptive optics was discovered, it was possible to see Pluto and Charon as separate disks using ground-based telescopes.
Charon Profile  by NASA's Solar System Exploration
James W. Christy and Robert S. Harrington, "The satellite of Pluto," The Astronomical Journal 83 (1978) 1005
Marc W. Buie, Phases of Charon as seen from Pluto, Lowell Observatory
Buie, Surface of Charon and Pluto
Hubble reveals new map of Pluto, BBC News, September 12, 2005
IAU Circular No.
3241 describing the discovery
Measuring the Size of a Small, Frost World  (ESO press release January 2006)
M. J. Person et al.:
Charon’s Radius and Density from the Combined Data Sets of the 2005 July 11 Occultation (submitted to the Astronomical Journal, February 3, 2006)
Cryovolcanism on Charon and other Kuiper Belt Objects
Pluto's moons
In mythology, Charon was the ferryman of Hades.
He was the son of Erebos and Nyx.
Charon took the newly dead people across the river Acheron or Styx to the Greek underworld, if they paid him three obolus (a Greek silver coin).
Because of this, people in Ancient Greece were always buried with a coin under their tongue and one on each eye to pay Charon.
Those who could not pay him had to wander the banks of the Acheron until they found a pauper's entrance to Hades.
Chaos was the nothingness at the beginning of the world, described in the creation myths of Classical mythology.
It was the state the universe (or cosmos) was in before it was created.
Because early Christians did not understand how to use the word "chaos" properly, the word's meaning changed to "disorder" or random and not normal.
It is the opposite of order.
Chaos is often identified as a god, who filled the gap between Heaven and Earth.
Born out of chaos were the first beings:
Gaia, the Earth
Tartarus, the Underworld
Uranus, Sky
Nyx, the Night
Erebos, the Darkness of the Underworld
According to Hesiod's Theogony, Eros came from the Chaos.
Later it was said that he was the son of Ares and Aphrodite.
From the name Eros we get the word erotic, meaning: to do with sexual love (passionate and physical).
There is also a noun: eroticism.
Cupid, the version of Eros in Roman mythology
A wheelwright is someone who builds or repairs wheels.
In the olden days there were lots of carts.
The wheels were made of wood.
It was a difficult job to make them, so the cartwright made the cart and the wheelwright did the specialized job of making the wheels.
In ancient times some wheels were made of bone in order to look beautiful.
The word wheelwright is not often used for people who make wheels today.
Wheels are made in factories and lots of people on the production line each have their bit to do.
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Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands.
There are about 653,000 people (2021) living in Rotterdam.
It has the biggest port in Europe.
The city is on several rivers, most notably the Maas.
Rotterdam, like all of the Netherlands, has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Koeppen climate classification).
A dam was built in 1260 across the river Rotte where the Hoogstraat is now.
The name Rotterdam comes from this dam.
The settlement was a regular fishing village at first, but became a thriving trading port pretty soon.
The city got city rights in 1340 and city walls in 1360.
Rotterdam became an important city in Holland in the middle of the 15th century, when it won little wars against Delft and Gouda.
From 1449 until 1525 a Gothic church (Laurenskerk) was built.
The city then hold about 10,000 people.
The city revolted against Spanish occupation in 1573, becoming one of the main city's of the Eighty Years' War.
The port of Rotterdam grew a lot in the late 16th century and early 17th century.
In the end of the 17th century, the city hold almost 50,000 people.
But the city had not built outside of the city walls.
The city became very crowded.
The port of Rotterdam became bigger and bigger in the 19th century, when several new canals were dug.
These were: Nieuwe Waterweg (lit: New Waterway), and Voornse Kanaal.
The city grew quickly due to the enormous amount of work in the port.
The population grew from 160,000 people in 1880 to 315,000 in 1900.
Various new districts were built, including Cool, Crooswerk, and Nieuwe Westen.
Neighbouring places also became part of Rotterdam.
In 1920, the city held more than 500,000 people for the first time in its history
Nazi Germany attacked the Netherlands in May 1940.
The Battle of the Netherlands brought heavy fighting in Rotterdam.
In the Blitz of Rotterdam, the Germans bombarded Rotterdam on May 14, 1940.
The damage was huge; 24,000 buildings were destroyed in only 15 minutes, and there was virtually nothing left of the old centre of Rotterdam.
800 people died instantly, and 80,000 were homeless.
The bombardment also destroyed the Willemsbrigde, one of the two brigdes across the Maas at that time.
The Germans repaired the bridge quickly, as it was of vital importance for the city.
During the German occupation, the neighbouring places of Hillegersberg, Schiebroek, Overschie, Kralingseveer and Ijsselmonde are annexed (put by) by Rotterdam.
On November 11th, 1944, a large razzia took place.
About 50,000 men from 17 to 40 years old from Rotterdam were deported into working camps.
The city also lost many people in the famine of 1944 (hongerwinter (lit: Winter of hunger)).
Rotterdam was quickly rebuilt after the war, but modernization led to the fact that many old buildings were not repaired, but replaced by totally new ones.
This has led to the fact that the centre of Rotterdam is composed of new buildings, a thing not common in European cities.
The ports of Rotterdam grew even more during the latter part of the 20th century.
New areas, built right on the sea, are Botlek, Maasvlakte, and Europoort.
The Euromast (185 m high) became an icon of Rotterdam.
The metro of Rotterdam opened in 1968, which was the first metro in the Netherlands.
The 1990s saw more skyscrapers being built.
The Delftse Poort, which was ready in 1991, was the highest skyscraper in the Netherlands, with 151 m high, until the Maastoren became the highest building in 2009 with 165 m. The new Erasmusbridge, which was ready in 1996, gave Rotterdam a new symbol.
The city of Rotterdam is split up into 14 districts, each with a number of neighbourhoods.
Rotterdam Centrum
Charlois
Delfshaven
Feijenoord
Hillegersberg-Schiebroek
Hoek van Holland
IJsselmonde
Kralingen-Crooswijk
Overschie
Pernis
Prins Alexander
Notable people from Rotterdam
Leo Beenhakker
Thea Beckman
Pascal Bosschaart
Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech
Julian "Bean" Delphiki (literary character)
André van Duin
Ida Gerhardt
Jacobus van 't Hoff
Marianne Heemskerk
Bep van Klaveren
Kruimeltje (literary character)
Paul de Leeuw
Rie Mastenbroek
Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh
Ron Steens
Marten Toonder
A throne is the official chair or seat upon which a monarch (royal ruler) is seated on state or ceremonial occasions.
The word "throne" can also refer to the monarchy itself.
An altar is a place, often a table, where a religious event happens.
Altars are used in Christianity and in other religions.
In some old religions, the event was a sacrifice, which means a holy work.
Usually the priest would use this item.
Sir Donald George Bradman  (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001) was an Australian cricketer.
Often called "The Don", he was a batsman.
Many people think he is the greatest batsmen of all time.
He scored 6,996 runs in his Test match career, at an average of 99.94 runs.
If he had scored four runs in his last Test match, he would have scored an average of 100 runs.
However, he scored no runs (a duck) in his last innings from just two balls.
This is the highest average in Test cricket, the second-highest average being 61.87.
Bradman command over the game showed as a batsman, as a captain, as a selector, as a writer and as an administrator.
Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson said that bowling to Bradman was one of his "greatest moments".
This happened in 1977–78 in Adelaide during India's tour to Australia.
Thompson said: "Sir Don was batting in a suit, no pads, no gloves, just a bat.
He must've been around 70 and hadn't batted [much] for almost 30 years and he was still so good.
It was turf wicket, and I bowled within myself, but there were a couple of young blokes who were bowling at full speed and he was carting them all over the place.
Along with meeting George Best, bowling to Bradman is the greatest moment of my life."
Cricket playing days
Bodyline Series
Before the first match of the tour, England had not told Australia what they were going to do, but when England named 5 fast bowlers (including Harold Larwood and Bill Voce).
It was not usual to have so many fast bowlers in one team, so Bradman knew that England were about to try something new.
The new way of bowling was first tried in a warm-up match which Bradman played in, and as expected Bradman struggled.
Bradman did not play in the first Test Match of the tour, which led some people to think this was because his had suffered a nervous breakdown.
England still tried their new way of bowling, and won the match but the Australian team were not happy.
Australian newspapers described this way of bowling as "bodyline", because the balls were often aimed fast at the body.
They felt that this bowling was unfair and dangerous, as in 1930s batsman did not wear helmets.
Despite this, the tour carried on and in the second Test Match Bradman returned.
In the first Australian innings, Bradman was bowled first ball.
Bradman guessed that the ball was going to be bounced high, so he moved to one side and swung the bat so he could score a boundary.
The ball did not bounce as high as Bradman thought, and it hit the stumps.
This was the first time he had been out on the first ball (called a duck) in his career at that point.
The crowd were shocked, as they were used to seeing Bradman easily score hundreds.
Bradman had a better second innings and scored 103 runs.
With good bowling from Australian bowlers Bill O'Reilly and Bert Ironmonger, this score helped Australia win the second match.
Australia were happy, as they thought that they had beaten what they felt was unfair bowling.
England won the last 3 test matches, still bowling "bodyline".
Bradman changed the way he batted a lot to try to score runs.
In bodyline, England put a lot of fielders on the leg side, so Bradman had the idea of moving backwards to hit the ball on the off side, where there were few fielders.
This was not a normal way of playing but this helped him to get 56.57 runs on average per innings in the tour.
Jack Fingleton (Australian batsman) thought that this tour changed Bradman's way of batting for the rest of his career.
Bradman was married to Jessie Martha Menzies for 65 years, until Jessie died in 1999.
Bradman said on many occasions how important his wife was, once saying "I would never have achieved what I achieved without Jessie".
Don and Jessie Bradman had 3 children, but family life was difficult.
Their first child died young in 1936.
Their second child (John, born in 1939) caught a serious virus disease called polio.
and their third child (Shirley, born 1941) had cerebral palsy since birth.
Australian cricketers
Infectious disease deaths in Australia
Sportspeople from New South Wales
Sir Ian Terence Botham (born 24 November 1955) is an English retired cricketer.
He was an all-rounder, being good at both batting and bowling.
He was also very good at catching the ball when he was fielding.
He played over 100 test matches for England.
He is a very popular man in England.
One reason for this is that he helped England to beat Australia in a series of test matches called "The Ashes" in 1981.
This series is sometimes called "Botham's Ashes".
Now he works on television.
He has done some long walks to raise money for charity.
He was knighted in 2007.
English cricketers
Sportspeople from Cheshire
According to Greek mythology, the god Apollo insulted Eros, otherwise known as Cupid, the god of love.
Becoming angry, Eros shot a golden arrow at Apollo, causing him to fall in love with the nymph Daphne the virgin.
Eros then shot Daphne with a leaden arrow so she could never love Apollo back.
So Apollo followed her while she ran away, until she came to the river of her father, Peneus.
Apollo became jealous and puts it into the girl's mind to stop to bathe in the river Ladon; there, as all strip naked, the ruse is revealed, as in the myth of Callisto.
There she wanted help from her father who turned her into a laurel tree so she would be safe from Apollo.
Apollo then began to be sad.
Some versions say that when Daphne saw Apollo sad, taking pity she made him a laurel wreath (a circle made of laurel that is worn like a crown) from her leaves.
Other accounts state that Apollo made the laurel himself, taking from the tree.
The laurel tree became sacred of Apollo and is used by emperors within the culture.
After the crown was used for all the winners at his games and great heroes in the years to come would be crowned with laurel leaves.
He also vowed that she, like him, would have eternal youth where her leaves would never turn brown or fall but would always stay lush and green.
Some even say that he created this laurel wreath to remind him of the prize he can never win still Apollo loved that laurel with all his heart.
See Ovid.
Metamorphoses.
Book I: 452-567.
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) that is a role-playing game (RPG).
It is an RPG which is played online (on the internet) by a very large number of people at the same time.
Some popular MMORPG games
The 4th Coming
Asheron's Call 2
Battle Dawn
Cantr II