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Marcel Reich-Ranicki (2 June 1920 – 18 September 2013) was a Polish-German literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47.
He was regarded as one of the most influential contemporary literary critics in the field of German literature and has often been called Literaturpapst ("Pope of Literature") in Germany.
Reich-Ranicki was born on 2 June 1920 in Włocławek, Poland.
He was raised in Berlin, Germany.
Reich-Ranicki was married to Teofila Reich-Ranicki from 1942 until her death in 2011.
Reich-Ranicki died on 18 September 2013 in Frankfurt, having previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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Giannatos was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1941.
He left the city for Greece in 1964 during the long eviction period of Greeks.
He was married to Chaido Giannatos.
Giannatos died on 17 September 2013 from a heart attack in his Athens, Greece home, aged 72.
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Disease-related deaths in Greece
was a Japanese industrialist.
He was largely responsible for bringing Toyota Motor Corporation to profitability and worldwide prominence during his tenure as president and later, as chairman.
Toyoda was born on 12 September 1913 in Nagoya, Japan.
He studied at Tokyo Imperial University.
Toyoda was married to Kazuko Toyoda until her death in 2002.
Toyoda died on 17 September 2013 in Toyota, Aichi from natural causes, aged 100.
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Erich Loest (24 February 1926 – 12 September 2013) was a German writer.
He also wrote under the pseudonyms Hans Walldorf, Bernd Diksen, and Waldemar Naß.
From 1965 to 1975, he wrote eleven novels and 30 short stories, some under pseudonyms.
In 1979 he was ostracized from East Germany and did not return until after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990.
Loest was born on 24 February 1926 in Mittweida, Saxony.
In his later years, Loest became seriously ill and announced at an Academy of Arts ceremony in 2010 that he did not have the strength to write another novel.
On the morning of 12 September 2013, he committed suicide by falling from a second-floor hospital window in Leipzig, Saxony.
Cynewulf († 786) was a West Saxon nobleman, a member of the West Saxon witan, and was King of Wessex from 757 until his death in 786.
Cynewulf was a member of the West Saxon witan.
He led that council in expelling Sigeberht.
Cynewulf was elected by the witan to rule Wessex in place of Sigeberht.
He attested a charter at the court of King Æthelbald of Mercia.
The charter was for Cynewulf to grant land to an abbot in Wiltshire.
This indicates Wessex was still a dependency of Mercia.
Æthelbald died a few months later.
Taking advantage of this Cynewulf took back lands he lost in Berkshire and Wiltshire.
Cynewulf was occupied during much of his reign in wars against the Welsh of Dumnonia.
He was never able to conqueror Cornwall however.
In 779, Cynewulf was defeated by Offa of Mercia at the Battle of Bensington.
and Offa then retook Berkshire, and perhaps also London.
Despite this defeat, there is no evidence to suggest Cynewulf became subject to Offa (as his successor, Beorhtric was).
In 786 Cynewulf was surprised and killed by Cyneheard, the brother of the deposed king Sigeberht.
The entry for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the year 784 (actual date 786) was: "This year Cyneheard slew [killed] king Cenewulf, and he was there slain, and eighty-four men with him; then Beorhtric succeeded to the kingdom of the West Saxons..." Cynewulf had a long reign of twenty-nine years.
He died leaving no heirs.
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780s deaths
Mengjiang United Autonomous Government () was a puppet state of the Japanese Empire.
It was located in inter Mongolia.
The capital city was Kalgan.
It existed from 1939 to 1945.
The ruler of the state is Demchugdongrub.
Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – August 19, 1580) was an Italian architect.
He was born in Padua and died at Maser, near Treviso.
He worked in and around Venice.
He was influenced by Greek and Roman architecture.
He influenced architects for centuries.
He wrote several books about architecture.
His most famous buildings are: Villa Barbaro, Villa Capra "La Rotonda", Basilica Palladiana, Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Il Redentore, and Teatro Olimpico.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770) was an Italian decorative painter of the Baroque.
He was born in Venice and died in Madrid.
He had nine children upon his wife Maria Cecilia Guardi.
Two of his three sons became his assistants; the third became a priest.
He worked churches and palaces in Italy, Germany, and Spain.
Elegy for Brahms is a short orchestral work.
It was written by Hubert Parry in 1897.
It is in the key of A minor, and is marked Maestoso espressivo - Largamente - Tempo primo.
The work quotes Brahms's music in several places.
It was first performed after Parry's death in October 1918 at a memorial concert for him at the Royal College of Music on 8 November 1918.
It received its second performance in 1977.
It has been recorded by Sir Adrian Boult and Matthias Bamert.
Das Lied von der Erde is a piece of music and symphonic song cycle.
It was written by Gustav Mahler in 1908-1909 as a symphony with sonata form.
It is a large work of six separate songs for two voices and orchestra.
It is based on Hans Bethge's The Chinese Flute, an anthology of ancient Chinese poetry.
It was first performed on November 20, 1911 in Munich.
Compositions by Gustav Mahler
An evaporating dish is used to evaporate solutions - that is, to turn them from a liquid state into a gaseous (gas) state.
They are often made from ceramics.
Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah  (12 August 1845 – 22 June 1885) was a religious leader of the Sufi Samaniyya order in Sudan.
On 29 June 1881, he proclaimed himself as the Mahdi or messianic redeemer of the Islamic faith.
His proclamation came during a period of widespread resentment among the Arabic part of the Sudanese population.
They resented the oppressive policies of their Turco-Egyptian rulers (who were also muslims).
There were messianic beliefs among the various Sudanese religious sects of the time.
There were earlier Mahdist movements in West Africa, and Wahhabism and other puritanical forms of Islamic revivalism.
The root cause of this was the growing military and economic dominance of the European powers throughout the 19th century.
The British influenced the Sudan, and had claimed it as a "Joint Anglo-Egyptian Condominion".
In general, the British were behind the rule of the Khedives of the Muhammad Ali Pasha dynasty in Egypt.
At the time of the Mahdi, Egypt and the Sudan were ruled jointly by Tewfik Pasha as recognised by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British.
Britain's claim to the Sudan led to British forces being sent there after the Mahdi had beaten the forces of the Khedive.
The British government appointed General Charles George Gordon ("Gordon pasha") to be Governor General of the Sudan, and that led to his famous death in Khartoum at the hands of the Mahdi's forces.
From his announcement of the Mahdiyya in June 1881 until the fall of Khartoum in January 1885, Muhammad Ahmad led a successful military campaign against the Turco-Egyptian government of the Sudan.
The fighting ended with the death of Gordon in Khartoum.
After Muhammad Ahmad's unexpected death on 22 June 1885, only six months after the conquest of Khartoum, his chief deputy took over the administration of the Sudan.
Churchill says they had by then killed all the people capable of running the country.
The rule of Sudan by the Mahdists turned out badly for its people.
Sudan's economy was all but destroyed, and the population had declined by about one-half because of famine, disease, persecution, and warfare.
Millions died in the Sudan from the start of the Mahdist state to its fall.
None of the country's traditional institutions or loyalties remained intact.
Tribes had been divided in their attitudes toward Mahdism, religious brotherhoods had been weakened, and orthodox religious leaders had vanished.
Reconquest of the Sudan
In 1895, the British Government authorized Herbert Kitchener to launch a campaign to reconquer the Sudan.
Britain provided men and matériel, while Egypt financed the expedition.
The Anglo-Egyptian Nile Expeditionary Force included 25,800 men, 8,600 of whom were British.
The remainder were troops belonging to Egyptian units, including six battalions recruited in southern Sudan.
An armed river flotilla escorted the force, which also had artillery support.
In preparation for the attack, the British established army headquarters at Wadi Halfa.
In March 1896, the campaign started.
In September, Kitchener captured Dunqulah.
The British then constructed a rail line from Wadi Halfa to Abu Hamad and an extension parallel to the Nile to transport troops and supplies to Berber.
Anglo-Egyptian units fought and won various smaller engagements.
Eventually, Kitchener's soldiers marched and sailed toward Omdurman.
In Omdurman, on 2 September 1898, the Sudanese leader, now known as the Khalifa, committed his 52,000-man army to a frontal assault against the Anglo-Egyptian force, which was massed on the plain outside the town.
The outcome never was in doubt, largely because of superior British firepower.
During the five-hour battle, about 11,000 Mahdists died, whereas Anglo-Egyptian losses amounted to 48 dead and fewer than 400 wounded.
Mopping-up operations took several years, but organized resistance ended when the Khalifa, who had escaped to Kurdufan, died fighting in battle at Umm Diwaykarat, November 1899.
Many areas welcomed the downfall of his regime.
Churchill, Winston 1889.
The River War: an historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan.
2 vols, London: Longmans Green.
Churchill was on Kitchener's expedition as a newspaper reporter.
His book was abridged (shortened), and republished in 1902 as a single volume.
Sigeberht († ) was a West Saxon nobleman and atheling.
He was King of Wessex from 756 to 757.
Sigeberht was a West Saxon atheling (prince) who in 756 succeeded Cuthred as King of Wessex.
in 756.
After ruling a year he was accused of unlawful acts and removed from power by the witan.
This council was led by Cynewulf.
This same council then elected Cynewulf to replace Sigeberht as king.
Sigeberht was allowed to keep Hampshire and was supported there by the ealdorman Cumbra.
But Sigeberht then killed Cumbra and as a result was driven out of Hampshire.
Sigeberht met his end while wandering in the great forest of the Weald, killed by a herdsman.
The herdsman killed Sigeberht in revenge for killing Cumbra.
This series of events formed the basis for the story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard.
Thirty years later Cynewulf was killed by Cyneheard, the brother of Sigeberht.
This was either in revenge for killing his brother or because Cyneheard was about to be expelled from Wessex.
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Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian operic tenor.
He sang at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera House.
In 1987, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
David Wright is an American professional baseball player.
He plays on the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.
He plays third base.
He wears number 5.
Wright was born on December 20, 1982 in Norfolk, Virginia.
He was drafted by the Mets in the 2001 draft.
He started playing in the minor leagues later that year.
Wright first played for the Mets in July 2004.
Since that time, he has been the Mets regular third basemen.
He has been in 7 all-star games.
Wright was chosen as captain of the Mets in 2013
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David Wright at the Ultimate Mets Database
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Enough Said is a 2013 American comedy movie directed and written by Nicole Holofcener.
It is a romantic comedy with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini (in one of his final film roles), Toni Collette, Catherine Keener, Ben Falcone, and Toby Huss.
The movie was released to very positive reviews on September 18, 2013.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is an 2014 superhero-action movie directed by Marc Webb.
It is a sequel to the 2012 Spider-Man movie The Amazing Spider-Man.
Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Martin Sheen, Denis Leary, Colm Feore, Chris Cooper, Sally Field, Chris Zylka, Marton Csokas, and Felicity Jones are in the cast.
Hans Zimmer composed the music for the movie.
Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee once again had a cameo appearance as a graduation guest.
It was released on May 2, 2014.
A sequel to the film, which will be titled The Amazing Spider-Man 3, will be released in 2022.
Confident in his powers as Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) embraces his new role as a hero and spends time with Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) in between protecting New York from criminals.
However, his greatest battle yet is about to begin.
With the emergence of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Peter must confront an enemy far more powerful than he is.
And when his old friend Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan) returns, Peter comes to realize that all his enemies have one thing in common: Oscorp.
Cuthred († )  was a West Saxon nobleman and atheling.
He was King of Wessex from 740 to 756.
Cuthred succeeded in restoring much of the prestige of Wessex.
At the death of King Athelheard, his kinsman Cuthred became king.
During the time of Athelheard much of Wessex had been lost to King Aethelbald of Mercia.
Cuthred made it known he was not as weak a ruler as Athelheard and struggled against Aethelbald being his overlord.
In the first three years of Cuthred's rule he warred with Mercia.
In 743 Cuthred joined Aethelbald in fighting the Welsh.
By all appearances this was a friendly alliance between the two kings.
But the friendship soon ended.
In 748 Cuthred's son, Cynric, tried to depose his father and died in the rebellion.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the rebellion was encouraged by the Mercian king.
Two years later in 750 Cuthred put down another rebellion by Athelhun, one of his ealdormen.
In the day-long battle, Athelhun had fewer men but was winning until he was severely wounded.
In 752, Cuthred again tried to get free of King Aethelbald.
This led to a battle at Burford where Cuthred, assisted by a now faithful Athelhun, met Aethelbald and his army.
The battle ended up with Aethelbald fleeing the battlefield.
From that time on Cuthred maintained independence from Mercia for the rest of his reign.
Cuthred died in 756.
But he left a much stronger Wessex free of Mercian rule.
He was succeeded by Sigeberht.
The name of Cuthred's wife is unknown.
His son:
Cynric was killed in 746.
The 2011 Joplin tornado was a very violent EF5 tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri on the afternoon of May 22, 2011.
It had winds of over 200 miles per hour.
It killed 158 people and hurt 1,150 others.
It caused $2.8 billion in damage.
It is the costliest tornado to hit the United States.
It was the third tornado to hit Joplin since May 1971.
Time-lapse of the May 22 tornado outbreak
Radar loop of the Joplin tornado
NOAA's Aerial Survey of Joplin, Missouri
Slideshow of damage from the tornado
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Alex Henrique da Silva, better known as Alex (; born 6 January 1982), is an Armenian-Brazilian football player.
He played as a defender for the club Mika Yerevan in the Armenian Premier League.
He also played for the Armenian national team.
Alex Henrique da Silva started playing football for Botafogo-SP in 2011.
This is his hometown's club.
In 2005, he moved to São Carlos.
After getting an Armenian passport, Alex moved to Armenia in the next season.
He joined Mika Yerevan.
Alex, with Mika, won the Armenian Cup in 2011 and the Armenian Supercup in 2012–13.
He became a member of the Armenian national team in 2012.
Alex played in two 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification matches that year.
The matches were against Malta and Bulgaria.
Armenian Premier League Runner-up (2): 2009, 2012–13
Armenian Cup (1): 2011
Armenian Supercup (1): 2012–13
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São Miguel Island, named for the Archangel Michael (), is also referred to locally as "The Green Island", is the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
The island has around 138,000 inhabitants and its largest city, and in the archipelago, is Ponta Delgada.
The first capital of the island was Vila Franca do Campo, which was devastated by a major earthquake and landslides in 1522.
The tragedy helped to elevate Ponta Delgada to the administrative and economic status of capital and business centre from 1546.
With the Portuguese Restoration War (1640), the island became a commercial centre, establishing new contacts in Brazil.
Some of the island’s historic buildings, including mansions and churches, date from this period; the island's development came from revenues from the export of oranges, mainly to Great Britain.
The period after the Liberal Wars allowed the economy to flourish, and the port of Ponta Delgada expanded, through the export of new crops such as tea, pineapple, and tobacco.
The development of the fishing industry, cultivation of staple food and expansion of the dairy industry permitted the growth of many of the towns on the island.
The São Miguel Island has an area of .
It is a narrow island; it is  long (from southeast to northwest) and  wide (from southwest to northeast).
The island, of volcanic nature and subject to seismic activity, presents many mountains, mainly in the interior, dominated by the Pico da Vara; those mountains are cut by valleys, gullies and streams - the only waterways because there are not rivers.
The island consists of an ancient massif in the eastern end, and three stratovolcanoes: Sete Cidades, Fogo and Furnas.
The stratovolcano of Sete Cidades is known for its large caldera () of  in diameter and  of mean depth; in it there are two small lakes (Lagoa Verde to the south and Lagoa Azul to north).
In the eastern part of the island is the Pico da Vara () - the highest mountain of the island - with  of altitude.
In the central area, is the Sierra de Água de Pau with 940 m height and on the west lies the Caldeira das Sete Cidades, 850 m altitude.
Similar to other islands in the Azores archipelago, São Miguel is influenced by ocean currents and winds, in particular, the Gulf Stream.
It functions as a moderating force in the islands, keeping temperatures hovering between  throughout the year.
Rainfall is distributed evenly throughout the year, although it is most abundant in the cool season.
The island's location also makes it susceptible to many Atlantic storms.
Most towns and cities are in plains, some along the coast and a few in the interior of the island.
There are several communities within ancient craters (such as Sete Cidades, Furnas or Povoação), river valleys (such as Ribeira Chã, Pilar da Bretanha) or coastal deltas (Mosteiros).
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Power forward is a position in basketball.
Power forwards play a role similar to that of a center in what is called the "post" or "low blocks".
They usually play offensively with their backs towards the basket and position themselves defensively under the basket in a zone defense or against the power forward from the other team in a man-to-man defense.
is a Japanese singer, actor and dancer.
Imai works for the Japanese agency Johnny & Associates.
He joined Johnny & Associates in 1995.
He officially debuted in 2002 in the duo Tackey & Tsubasa with Hideaki Takizawa.
They are signed under the record label Avex Trax.
Mokuyou no kaidan (1995)
Brothers (ブラザーズ) (1998)
Summer Snow (2000)
Never Land (2001)
Saigo no Bengonin (The Last Lawyer) (2003)
Yoshitsune (2005)
Haru to Natsu (2005)
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is a Japanese actor and musician.
He is a member of the J-pop duo Tackey & Tsubasa from Tokyo.
In 2012 he reached the age of 20 and completed his graduation from Johnny's Junior.
In the same year he debuted with Tsubasa Imai in the group Tackey & Tsubasa under the record label Avex Trax.
Ai Love Jr. variety show
Mokuyou no Kaidan Kaiki Curabu ~ Shogakusei Hen ~ (1995)
Mokuyou no Kaidan Kaiki Curabu ~ Chuugakusei Hen ~ (1995)
The Chef (1995)
Shin Mokuyou no Kaidan ~ Gakko no Nanafushigi Hen ~ (1996)
Dareka ga Dareka ni Koishiteru [Drama SP] (1996)
Mokuyou no Kaidan: Time keepers (1997)
News no Onna (1998)
Kokoro No Tobira (1998)
Majou no Jōken (1999)
Genroku Ryoran (1999)
Taiyou wa Shizumanai (2000)
Antique (based on manga, Antique Bakery) (2001)
Strawberry on the Shortcake (2001)
Taiyō no Kisetsu (2002)|Taiyō no Kisetsu (2002)
Boku Dake no Madonna (2003)
My Father's Ocean, My Sky (Chichi no Umi, Boku no Sora) (2004)
Yoshitsune (2005–2006)
Satomi Hakkenden" (2006)
Kimi ga Kureta Natsu (2007)
Romeo and Juliet (2007)
Yukinojo Henge (2008)
Kokuchisezu (2008)
Orthros no Inu (2010)
Akutou (2012)
Mayonaka no Panya San (2013)
Songs written by Takki
894…Hakushi
Madonna (for DreamBoy musical in 2004)
Futari no Yoru
My Angel, You are Angel (for KAT-TUN; released in Cartoon KAT-TUN II You album 2007)
Fight All Night (for KAT-TUN; for DreamBoy musical in 2004; released in Cartoon KAT-TUN II You album 2007)
Da.ke.do
Jūnigatsu no Hana
Kakumei
Mugen no Hane
The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846.
After this, many people thought that there might be more planets, which are further away from the sun than Neptune.
In the early 20th century, Percival Lowell stated that there must be another planet-like body, farther out than Neptune.
Lowell said that such a planet-like object could explain some irregularities in the orbits of the gas giants, in particular Uranus and Neptune.
The gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to explain the irregularities.
In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.
This seemed to validate Lowell's hypothesis.
Pluto was officially considered the ninth planet until 2006.
There was a problem, however: In 1978, Pluto was found to be too small.
Its gravity would be unable to affect the gas giants.
This finding triggered a search for a tenth planet.
The spacecraft Voyager 2 supplied new measurements in the early 1990s.
These measurements showed that Pluto was even smaller than in the 1978 measurement.
According to a scientific study published at the time, the error could explain the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit.
After the study had been published, the search was largely abandoned.
After 1992, the discovery of many small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate over whether Pluto should remain a planet, or whether it and its neighbours should, like the asteroids, be given their own separate classification.
Although a number of the larger members of this group were initially described as planets, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto and its largest neighbours as dwarf planets, leaving only eight planets in the Solar System.
Pluto was taken as a model for a dwarf planet.
Existence of Planet X
Today, the astronomical community widely agrees that Planet X, as originally envisioned, does not exist.
A number of astronomers have used the concept of Planet X to explain other anomalies observed in the outer Solar System.
In popular culture, and even among some astronomers, Planet X has become a stand-in term for any undiscovered planet in the outer Solar System, regardless of its relationship to Lowell's hypothesis.
Other trans-Neptunian planets have also been suggested, based on different evidence.
Possibilities beyond Neptune
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, there is a structure called the Kuiper belt.
It contains objects called centaurs.
Plutinos have also been discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Many of these were discovered between 1980 and 1992.
In 2004, the media again talked about the subject, when Sedna was discovered, twice as far from the sun than Pluto.
Sedna is not a planet.
In 2005, the discovery of Eris was announced.
This was called a planet at first; but later reclassified.
Today it is the biggest of the dwarf planets.
Many other objects were discovered, but none of these is made of solid rock, they more resemble asteroids and comets.
As of 2013, it is possible that a planet outside the orbit of Neptune exists.
If it does, it would have to meet the following conditions:
If the planet is about the size of the earth, it would have to be as far out as 100 AUs, about 2.5 times the distance of Pluto to the sun.
As an alternative, its orbit would have to be very elliptic or be very much outside the ecliptic.
Different hypotheses have been put forward: A hypothetical star, located at about 50,000 AU distance, has been called Nemesis.
Nemesis might be either a red dwarf or a brown dwarf.
In the original article, it was claimed Nemesis would orbit the sun at about 95,000 AU.
The existence of Nemesis could explain events of mass extinction on earth which seem to occur at intervals of 26 million years.
However, its existence is not necessary to explain the extinctions.
There are actually fewer brown dwarfs in our cosmic neighborhood than previously thought.
Rather than one star for every brown dwarf, there may be as many as six stars for every brown dwarf.
The majority of solar-type stars are single.
A hypothetical planet, located in the Oort cloud has been called Tyche.
Tyche would be at least as  large as Jupiter, and could be up to ten time as large.
Originally, it was postulated to be hundreds of times farther than Neptune, at a distance of between 30,000 to 50,000 AU.
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer.
He was born in Livorno, Tuscany and died in Rome.
In 1890, he wrote the one-act opera, Cavalleria rusticana.
This famous opera is often paired with Ruggero Leoncavallo's I pagliacci.
Mascagni also wrote Iris, L'amico Fritz, and other operas.
He married Lina Carbognani in 1889.
Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) is an independent professional wrestling company founded in 1999 by John Zandig.
The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
They are known for their hardcore wrestling style which is dubbed as "ultraviolence".
The company holds an annual Tournament of Death show that highlights the ultraviolent style of CZW and their annual Best of the Best highlights the technical and aerial style of professional wrestling.
They hold annual shows at the Asylum Arena which was the former home to Extreme Championship Wrestling.
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Jean de Venette (circa 1307 – after 1360) was born in Venette, France.
He was a chronicler of the Hundred Years' War.
He also recorded the events of the Black Plague, the revolt of the  Jacquerie, and other historical events that occurred in his lifetime.
Venette studied at the University of Paris.
He became a Carmelite friar and shared his knowledge with his fellow monks.
Jean de Venette realized the importance of education and taught many monks how to read and write.
He also wrote a history of the Order of the Carmelites.
Jean de Venette became the Prior of the Carmelite monastery in Paris from 1339 to 1342, and was the Provincial Superior of France from 1341 to 1366.
This later title made him the head of all of the Carmelite monasteries in the Province.
About 1340, he began to write down historical events happening around him.
He said he recorded them   "...in great measure as I have seen and heard them".
He describes a great famine that he witnessed at age seven or eight years old.
He states it started on the 15th day of March in 1315 and lasted more than two years and ended in 1318."
In that same year of 1340 he describes a great comet that appeared in Gaul.
He believed, as did many people in his time, that these events were warnings from God of bad things that would happen.
In 1348, de Venette described the Black Plague and how brave the nuns were that cared for the people.
Also how many of them died as a result of their dedication.
He wrote of battles between England and France during the Hundred Years' War where he was so close, "the arrows darkened the sky around him”.
Some of these battles he described were the siege of Calais in 1347 and the Battle of Poitiers (1356) where the French King and his son were captured.
He gives an account of what happened after Poitiers where he states that there seem to be no rule in the kingdom.
He wrote that "thieves and robbers rose up everywhere in the land and the Nobles also robbed and pillaged the peasants and took no thought for the people but rather for their own profit".
He states that in 1356, he witnessed the people of Paris building walls around their city because they did not trust the Nobles to protect them.
De Venette goes into great detail, stating that the "citizens placed iron chains across the streets and crossways of Paris".
They also built new walls, dug great ditches and tore down houses near the walls whether they were new or old.
Jean de Venette's writings are considered very important because he was an eye witness to many historical events.
His writings are detailed and vivid.
Many of the other well-known chroniclers wrote about events much later then they actually happened and relied upon one-sided accounts.
They were often commissioned by Kings and Nobles who wanted their particular point of view to be stressed.
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Athelheard, also spelled Æthelheard († 740), was a West Saxon nobleman and atheling.
He was the King of Wessex from 726 until his death.
He took the powerful kingdom of Wessex left to him by Ine and lost much of it to Mercia.
When Ine stepped down as King of Wessex it caused a problem of succession.
Ine's son had been killed rebelling against Ine a year earlier.
Ine was now in his sixties and retired to Rome.
He 'commended his kingdom to younger men'.
It came down to a struggle between the two athelings, Oswald and Athelheard, Oswald was descended from Ceawlin.
The same entry calls Athelheard kinsman to Ine.
The two fought and Athelheard became king.
In one charter Athelheard is called the brother of Ine's wife Atelburh.
In 733 Somerton was lost to King Aethelbald of Mercia.
This was quickly followed by the territory beyond Selwood being lost to Mercia.
Athelheard's authority was so weak that Aethelbald was able to give the Archbishop of Canterbury a gift of the monastery of Cookham in Berkshire (Wessex).
Aethelbald also took Wiltshire, Sussex and much of the heartlands of Wessex.
Athelheard could do nothing to prevent this loss.
He also took part in Athelbald's wars with the Welsh.
It seems Athelbald's wife, Frithugyth, was Mercian herself.
In 737 she made a pilgrimage to Rome along with bishop Forthhere of Sherborne.
Athelheard died in 740, his successor was his kinsman Cuthred.
He married Frithugyth.
"Blurred Lines" is an R&B song by Robin Thicke.
It has vocals by Pharrell and T.I. and was produced by Pharrell.
It was released on March 26, 2013.
It was the lead single from his album Blurred Lines.
It has reached number one in 14 countries.
It became Thicke's most successful song, being his first to reach number one on the Hot 100.
He had already peaked number 14 in 2007 with "Lost Without U".
"Blurred Lines" sold more than any other single in 2013.
It sold over 1.44 million copies.
Two versions of the music video were made.
The first version of the video was removed from YouTube for showing topless models Emily Ratajkowski, Elle Evans, and Jessi M'Bengue.
In the second version the models are not topless.
Several parodies were made.
On November 12, the English pop singer Lily Allen released the video for her single "Hard Out Here".
It featured Mylar balloons spelling out "Lily Allen has a baggy pussy", spoofing the balloons in Thicke's video saying "Robin Thicke has a big dick".
Thicke wanted the song to sound like Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye.
Members of Gaye's family have accused Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell of illegal copying.
Thicke offered the family a six-figure sum of money to end the lawsuit but they did not accept it.
The song was banned by twenty UK universities.
Essex University students started a petition to have the song banned there too.
Alice Smart, a Leeds Student Union officer, said, “I’m proud that we’ve taken the decision to stop playing ‘Blurred Lines’ in our bars and clubs because the song undermines real and dangerous issues around consent.
Just because the song has been commercially successful doesn’t mean we have to play it knowing that it offends a high proportion of our students.”
Thicke responded on The Today Show to feminist criticism of the song by saying, "If you listen to the lyrics it says 'That man is not your maker.'
It's actually a feminist movement in itself".
He also said in an interview with the BBC that criticism of the lyrics by a rape charity is 'ridiculous'.
On December 26, 2013, Rob Sheffield wrote for Rolling Stone that "Blurred Lines" was the worst song not just of the year, but of any year.
The Arthus reaction was discovered by Nicolas Maurice Arthus in 1903.
Arthus repeatedly injected ingredients of horse blood under the skin of rabbits.
After four injections, he found that there was swelling and that the mixture was absorbed slowly.
Further injections eventually led to dying of cells.
Arthus reactions have been infrequently reported after diphtheria and tetanus toxoid vaccinations.
They are rare and can cause pain, swelling, bleeding, and occasionally death of tissue within 4–12 hours after the vaccine is given.
Installation art is a style of visual art that uses three-dimensional objects.
These artworks are usually meant to change the perception of a space (the way a space is seen).
Installation artworks can be permanent or temporary and are shown in museums, galleries or in public spaces.
Some of the earliest installation artworks were Marcel Duchamp's readymade objects.
However, the real development started in the 1970s.
Today, with the improvement of technology, artists use and mix new medias and may involve sensors too in order to make the visitors interact with the installations.
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Joakim Nordström (born February 25, 1992) is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre.
He is currently playing for Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League (NHL).
He has also played in the NHL for the Chicago Blackhawks and in the Elitserien (SEL) for AIK IF.
He debuted in the SEL on 23 September 2010 in a game against Södertälje SK.
He was drafted 90th overall by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
On January 5, 2012, he won the gold medal with Sweden during the 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
On September 11, 2015, Nordström was traded along with Kris Versteeg to the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for a 3rd round draft pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Nordström and Versteeg were traded because the Blackhawks had to make cap space for Marcus Kruger.
No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys' Fault I’m Not Popular! (
私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い!
Watashi ga Motenai no wa dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!)
commonly called 'WataMote' (ワタモテ), is a manga series written by Nico Tanigawa.
It was made into an anime series which is directed by Shin Ōnuma.
The anime started broadcasting in Japan on July 8, 2013.
The anime is being directed by Shin Ōnuma and is written by Takao Yoshioka.
An original video animation episode is expected to be released with the seventh manga volume on October 22, 2014.
Official website  (manga)
Official website (anime)
Vampire Weekend is an indie rock band.
Their 2011 album Contra was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards.
Their third studio album, Modern Vampires of the City, was released on May 14, 2013.
It was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
Pitchfork gave the album a score of 9.3 out of 10.
Rolling Stone put it at number one on their list of 50 Best Albums of 2013.
Ezra Koenig – lead vocals, guitar, lyrics
Rostam Batmanglij – producer, keyboards, guitar, backing and lead vocals, lyrics
Chris Tomson – drums, percussion
Chris Baio – bass guitar, backing vocals
Pentatomidae, Greek pente meaning five and tomos meaning  section, is a family of stink bugs.
There are about 4,700 species in the family.
Draco (7th century BC) was the first legislator of the city of Athens in Ancient Greece.
He wrote laws that were to be enforced only by a court.
This constitution replaced the system of oral law and blood feuding that had governed Athens since the city was founded.
Draco's laws were known for being harsh.
The word draconian has come to mean unforgiving rules or laws.
Draco established this legal system during the 39th Olympiad, in about 622 or 621 BC.
The laws ( - thesmoi) he set formed the first written constitution of Athens.
They were displayed in public, so that nobody would be unaware of them.
The death penalty was the punishment for most crimes, even minor ones.
Plutarch states: "It was a lot for himself, when asked why he had fixed the punishment of death for most offences, answered that he considered these lesser crimes to deserve it, and he had no greater punishment for more important ones."
Not much is known about Draco's life or who he was.
The 10th-century Suda text tells a legendary story of his death.
He was said to have died on the stage of the theatre in Aegina.
In a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters threw so many hats and pieces of clothing onto his head that he suffocated.
Draco, the Latin word for dragon
Draco (genus), a genus of lizards
Draco (lawgiver), the first lawmaker of ancient Athens
Draco GNU/Linux, a Linux distribution
Draco Malfoy, a character in the Harry Potter series of books and movies
Draco, a warlord character in the television series Xena: Warrior Princess
The Lunar Society was an important club in the Midlands of 18th century England.
It was a dinner club, and a learned society.
Its members were industrialists and inventors, natural philosophers (scientists), and other intellectuals.
They met regularly in Birmingham and elsewhere from 1765 to 1813.
The name arose because the society met during the full moon.
The extra light made the journey home easier and safer in the absence of street lighting.
The members cheerfully referred to themselves as "lunarticks", a pun on lunatics.
Venues included Erasmus Darwin's home in Lichfield, Matthew Boulton's home, Soho House, and Great Barr Hall.
It leading members were Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Thomas Day, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Samuel Galton, Jr., James Keir, Joseph Priestley, William Small, Jonathan Stokes, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, John Whitehurst and William Withering.
Other great men of the day visited, or corresponded with, the Society.
It had no formal membership list, and was flexible in its arrangements.
Anyone could be invited.
The club was seriously affected by the Priestly Riots of July 1791, which started in Birmingham, and spread.
Some of the Society were personally attacked; Priestley's house was burned to the ground.
The causes of the riots are not entirely clear, but for sure the rioters were against "freethinkers and dissenters".
They were stirred up by being told that the dissenters were in favour of the French Revolution.
In the last quarter of the 18th century, the partnership installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines.
A great advance on the state of the art, they made possible the mechanisation of factories and mills.
Boulton applied modern techniques to the minting of coins, striking millions of pieces for Britain and other countries, and supplying the Royal Mint with up-to-date equipment.
Born in  Birmingham in 1728, Boulton was the son of a Birmingham manufacturer of small metal products who died when Boulton was 31.
By then Boulton had managed the business for several years, and he expanded it considerably at the Soho Manufactory, built by him near Birmingham.
When Watt's business partner, John Roebuck was unable to pay a debt to Boulton, he accepted Roebuck's share of Watt's patent as settlement.
He then successfully lobbied Parliament to extend Watt's patent for an additional 17 years.
This enabled the firm to market Watt's steam engine.
The firm installed hundreds of Boulton & Watt steam engines in Britain and abroad, initially in mines and then in factories.
Boulton was a key member of the Lunar Society, a group of Midlands men in the arts, sciences, and theology.
Members included Watt, Erasmus Darwin, Josiah Wedgwood and Joseph Priestley.
The Society met each month near the full moon.
Members of the Society developed concepts and techniques in science, agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transport that laid the groundwork for the Industrial Revolution.
Boulton founded the Soho Mint, which he adapted to steam power.
He sought to improve the poor state of Britain's coinage.
After several years of effort obtained a contract in 1797 to produce the first British copper coinage in a quarter century.
His "cartwheel" pieces were well-designed and difficult to counterfeit, and included the first striking of the large copper penny, which continued to be coined until decimalisation in 1971.
He retired in 1800, though continuing to run his mint, and died in 1809.
His image appears alongside James Watt on the Bank of England's new Series F £50 note.
The Peasants' Revolt was a rebellion of peasants in England, in 1381.
It was the biggest rebellion of farmers in medieval England.
The Peasants’ Revolt is also called Wat Tyler's Rebellion, after Wat Tyler, who was a local leader of the peasants in the rebellion.
It has also been called the Great Rising.
The causes of the rebellion are unclear today, but there are different candidates:
There was a large epidemic of the Black Death, which lasted from 1347 to 1353.
This reduced the number of workers and caused economic problems.
To finance Hundred Years' War, the English crown raised taxes several times within a short period of time.
The central government in London was weak at the time.
Life of peasants
There were two types of peasants: serfs and free peasants.
Serfs were tenant farmers who worked without pay for a lord.
In exchange, they got permission to live on the lord’s land.
They also got protection from the knights living on the lord’s manor.
Under feudalism, serfs had many difficulties.
They barely had enough food to live on, and they had few possessions.
They were not slaves, but they were not completely free.
Serfs had less than any of the other social classes in medieval society.
Though they had more freedoms than serfs, life was also difficult for free peasants.
Even though they were "free," they were still controlled by the higher social classes.
They had to pay rent to live "free."
They had to pay for many other things too, like collecting water or getting married.
Most peasants lived in houses which also housed the animals of the village.
May 30th: The peasants of Essex chase Thomas Bampton out of Fobbing.
June 1st: The revolt spreads through Essex, Hertfordshire, and Suffolk.
June 7th: Maidstone and Rochester castles surrender to the revolt.
June 10th: A new leader, Wat Tyler, appears.
The rebels of Kent and Essex march on London to explain their grievances.
However, Wat Tyler has a different plan: to attack London.
King Richard II of England is completely surprised, and only has a few hundred troops in London.
June 13th: The peasants kill many lawyers under the command of Wat Tyler.
Most of London is not destroyed.
King Richard agrees to meet the rebels at Mile End.
June 14th: Richard meets with Tyler, and Tyler gives him the peasants’ demands.
The king agrees to all of these demands.
Meanwhile, a group of peasants goes to the Tower of London and beheads some of their worst enemies.
These include Simon Sudbury, Robert Hailes, and John Legge.
June 15th: Wat Tyler wants to meet with the king again to make more demands.
When they meet, Tyler is killed.
It is not clear what happened to cause Tyler’s death.
King Richard orders his troops to destroy the rebels; they kill over a thousand.
Fifty years later, most of Wat Tyler's demands were put into place by the king.
The Leas Shelter was built in 1894.
In 1924, it was decided that a larger hall was needed.
28 months later, the building was finished.
It was opened on 13 July 1927 by Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
The opening concert was performed by the Folkestone Municipal Orchestra.
One thousand people attended.
It was closed for modernisation and refurbishment on 16 September 1980.
It re-opened on 6 May 1981 in the form that it is today.
Dirty rap (also called porn rap or dirty hip hop) is a type of music that mixes rap with sexual content.
Some notable artists include Plies, Lil Wayne, Lil' Kim, The Notorious B.I.G. and Ludacris.
East Coast hip hop or East Coast rap is a type of hip hop music that comes from the East Coast of the United States It originated in New York.
A notable East Coast rapper is 50 Cent.
Food photography is art made by taking photos of food.
These photos are sometimes used for menus in restaurants, but they can also be used for advertising, or in a cookbook.
System catering also needs images of their food.
There are a number of techniques that are used when taking pictures of food, for example, when taking pictures of soft drinks, fake ice cubes are put in the drink instead of real ones, because real ice cubes would melt quickly.
Ine († 728) was a West Saxon nobleman who was King of Wessex from 688 to 726.
He established Wessex as a true kingdom by introducing a code of laws.
He strengthened the position of the Church in Wessex.
His long reign was the most successful of any West Saxon king until Alfred the Great.
Ine was the son of Cenred, an underking of Wessex.
Bede says of Ine that he was "of the blood royal" meaning he was an atherling.
His brother was Ingild, ancestor of Alfred the Great.
His sister Cuthburh was married to King Aldfrith of Northumbria.
She was the founder of Wimborne abbey.
Ine married Ethelburg, sister of Athelheard, Ine's successor.
The former king, Caedwalla, was one of Wessex's more important military leaders.
When he abdicated in 688 it left a power vacuum.
Wessex was broken up into several sub-kingdoms.
Each was ruled by a underking.
Ine many have started as a sub-king but before long was able to establish himself as the sole ruler of Wessex.
Ine reorganized Wessex and established a system of shires.
He removed the positions of sub-kings, or underkings, and replaced them with ealdormen.
In many respects Ine was the first true king of Wessex.
Ine wrote his laws between 688 and 694 He mentions in the preamble bishop Erconwald who helped him.
This is Erconwald who from 675 to 694 was bishop of Essex (London).
He was replaced in 994 by Waldhere.
But the mention of Ine's father still being alive points to the laws being written earlier in this period rather than later.
The laws of Ine are the first set of laws for the Saxons of Wessex.
There were earlier law codes in Wessex.
But none covered as wide a range of situations as a king or his officers might have to deal with.
For the next two centuries there were no law codes written after those of Ine.
Not until Alfred the Great was a more extensive law code created.
In 705 the king of Essex was sheltering exiles from Wessex.
This created a serious problem between the two kings.
But finally the exiles were expelled after a threat by Ine to invade the East Saxon territory.
A similar situation occurred in 722 when an exile named Ealdbert was received in Sussex.
Ine invaded sussex as a result.
In 725 Ine invaded again and this time Ealdberht was killed.
In 710 Ine was at war with Geraint, king of Dumnonia.
This was part of his campaign against the Britons and expanding the borders of Wessex west to the River Tamar.
But he was unable to conqueror Cornwall.
Ine was defeated by the Cornish in 722 at the Tamar river.
All through his reign Ine seems to have been on good terms with the Mercians.
There is only one incident; a battle at Wodnesbeorg in 715 between Ine and Ceolred, King of Mercia.
But the only source for this informaiton, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle does not say who won.
Ine was a strong supporter of the Church.