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Dwight Kurt Schrute III (; born January 20, 1968) is a character on The Office played by Rainn Wilson.
He is one of the highest-ranking salesmen as well as assistant to the regional manager (disputed) at the paper company Dunder Mifflin.
Schrute is known for his lack of social skills and common sense, his love for martial arts and the justice system, and his office rivalry with fellow salesman Jim Halpert.
He is also known for his romantic relationship with Angela.
Dwight was also the Vice President of Special Projects Development for the Sabre Corporation, but was soon replaced by Todd Packer, who was almost immediately terminated.
In the final season, Dwight is finally offered the position of permanent Regional Manager.
The Office (U.S. TV series) characters
A pogo stick is a type of hopping device that holds one person.
It works by jumping off the ground in a standing position with the help of a spring.
It is used as a toy or exercise equipment.
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer, professor, and political commentator who is Jewish.
He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where he became the youngest full professor of law in its history in 1967, at the age of 28.
He has held the Felix Frankfurter professorship there since 1993.
Dershowitz is known for his role in several important legal cases and as a commentator on the Arab–Israeli conflict.
As a criminal lawyer, he has won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he has handled, and has represented many celebrity clients, such as Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Jeffrey Epstein and Jim Bakker.
His most famous cases include his role in 1984 in overturning the conviction of Claus von Bülow for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny, and as the appellate adviser for the defense in the trial of O.J. Simpson in 1995.
In 2020, he was hired by President Donald Trump to defend him during his impeachment trial.
He is a political liberal, and has written several books on politics and law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O.J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights (2004) and The Case for Peace (2005).
The Temple of Zeus is a Doric temple in the sanctuary at Olympia, Greece.
Olympia was the site of the ancient Olympic Games.
The temple is a ruin.
It was dedicated to Zeus, the principal god of the Ancient Greeks.
This temple was the most important and most impressive structure at Olympia.
The temple was built between 470 BC and 456 BC.
Local limestone was the chief material used.
The roof tiles, the gargoyles, and the sculptures were made of marble.
The temple measured 64.12 meters by 27.66 meters.
It was 20.25 meters high.
The temple had six columns at the ends and thirteen columns along both sides.
The height of each column was 10.45 meters.
A ramp at the eastern end led to the prodomos.
The table holding the Olympic wreaths stood to the right.
The crowning of the victors took place on the last day at this spot.
The sculptures of the east pediment depicted the story of Pelops and Hippodameia.
This story is about the first chariot races.
The sculptures of the west pediment depicted the story of the Centaurs and the Lapiths.
This story is about the contest between barbarity and civilization.
There were six metopes over the front porch and six over the back porch.
They depicted the Labors of Heracles.
The temple once contained Phidias' Statue of Zeus, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
The fate of the statue is unknown.
It may have been taken to Constantinople where it was probably destroyed in the fire of 475 AD.
Or, it may have been destroyed in the fire at Olympia in 426 AD.
Phidias' workshop was discovered at Olympia in 1954.
Statue bases cover the area around the temple.
These bases held statues of gods, heroes, and Olympic victors.
They were dedicated by individuals and cities.
The sacred olive from which the Olympic wreaths were cut stood on the west side of the temple.
Emperor Theodosius II ordered the temple burned to the ground in 426 AD.
Earthquakes destroyed it in 522 AD and in 551.
The Heraia were footraces held in honor of the goddess Hera in Olympia, Greece since early ancient times.
The races were said to have been created by Hippodameia in gratitude for her marriage to Pelops.
Only virgins from Elis, Greece competed.
They wore a short tunic that fell just above the knees.
The right shoulder was bare to the breast.
Competitors ran only about 160 meters in the stadium of Olympia.
This was somewhat short of the stadium's complete length.
The judges were 16 Eleian women.
Every four years, they wove Hera's sacred peplos (dress), and took it to her Temple.
The judges had two special dances: the Hippodameia and the Physkoa.
The latter was dedicated to a local nymph with whom Dionysos fell in love.
Winners of the race received an olive branch wreath and a portion of the cow's meat sacrificed to Hera.
They had the right to dedicate their statues to the Temple of Hera.
The Heraia was not held during the years of the men's Olympic Games.
About two years separated the events.
Ancient sports
Commission is the payment of extra on top of a salary.
Commission is generally found in sales work where a salesman obtains part of the total sale as extra wage.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, known as Ōgon no Taiyō: Shikkokunaru Yoake (黃金の太陽 漆黒なる夜明け) in Japan, is a fantasy role-playing video game for Nintendo DS.
It's developed by Camelot and published by Nintendo.
First shown Dark Dawn's official games was in E3 2010.
Game was released in October 28, 2010 in Japan and in November 29, 2010 in North America; It is 8 years since the previous game, Game Boy Advance game Golden Sun: The Lost Age, was released.
The game picks up 30 years after the first two games of the series.
The main characters are the children of the character in the previous game.
In the game, player will control Matthew and his friends to fix the "soarwing".
Like its predecessors, Dark Dawn similay as the traditional role-playing video game.
In game, players control characters travel in fantasy-themed world, chat with other characters, battle with monsters, learning powerful magic spells, finding equipment, and take part in a building, do given tasks.
Unlike the previous games, some locations don't allowed return once player left.
One change of game is the encyclopedia system.
For players who don't familiar with the plot of the first two games, the encyclopedia explains location, role and other words.
Much of the time are not spend in battle, instead, it takes place either in the game's overworld or solve puzzle for dungeons, caves, and other locales.
Like The Lost Age, Dark Dawn have a ship that can help player across a large sea, visiting continents and islands.
To solve puzzles or complete the tasks, player usually need to use magic spells that named Psynergy, besides, player also has to find items that can teach character new Psynergy.
Unlike many role-playing video games that magiac can only use as attack or defending in battle, Psynergy spells are also have important usage for solve puzzles and searching.
While some Psynergy can only be used in battle, some are only used in the game's overworld and in non-battle place.
Instead, some Psynergy can also be used for both situations; for example, the “Cold Snap” ability can be used to attack enemies in battle, or changed water to ice as part of a puzzle.
While using Psynergy in non-battle place, a light ring appears around the character and players can decide the direction of the ability by using the touch screen or buttons.
Psynergy comes in four elements: Venus (rocks and plants), Mars (fire and heat), Jupiter (wind and electricity), and Mercury (water and ice).
The player gains more and more Psynergy spells as the game progresses, either through levelling up or acquiring and equipping, or using special items, and with each "utility" Psynergy spell the party gains access to more locations and secrets hidden within the game world.
Dark Dawn have two kinds of battle: random monster encounters and battles which BOSS that can advance the story.
Battles take place on the lower screen of DS, enemy party and player's party are shown face to face.
During battle, the camera rotates around the characters and backgrounds in 3D, unlike the pseudo 3D effect used in the previous games.
The upper screen is used to view characters' stats and Djinni information.
In battle, the player is required to defeat all the enemies by attacks with weapons, using Psynergy spells, or other ways.
At the same time, player needs to keep his or her own party alive by using items and supportive Psynergy that heal and support.
If all the player's characters are defeated by losing all their hit points, the party is returned to the last village that the player visited, and the player loses some money.
A battle victory, players will get experience points, coins, and sometimes can get special items.
Djinn system
One of the most special feature in Dark Dawn is the Djinn system, where the player collects and cortrols elemental product called Djinn (singular: Djinni), and Dark Dawn use some Djinn that appeared in previous games.
They can be found in different place of the game.
Each element have 18 Djinn, so 4 elements Djinn have 72 totally, and any character can have each one.
Different Djinn can changed different character's classes differently, that besides hit points, Psynergy points, general stats, and Psynergy that character could use.
Once Djinn got, player can decide which character get it.
Each Djinn have three modes: Set, Standby, or Recovery.
When a Djinni is Set, that Djinni will change character's class, stats and Psynergy.
Psynergy that who can used is depending on both the character's and the Djinni's element.
In combat, player use character's set Djinni during that character's turn.
Each Djinni has its own special effect when called upon during combat.
These effects include attacking, buffing or debuffing, healing and many other effects.
After using a Djinni, it goes into Standby mode.
While on Standby, Djinn can't affect character class, but can be used for Summoning, where the player summons a powerful elemental spirit.
This is the game's most powerful way of attacking, and also the riskiest.
As it requires Djinn to be on standby, it woulden't strong a character like set Djinni.
Once a Djinni on Standby has been used for a Summon Sequence, it spends some turns recovering before it restores itself to Set mode on a character.
There are 30 Summon Sequences in Dark Dawn; 16 from the first game can be used alongside, 13 multi-elemental sequences introduced in "The Lost Age", and 1 new sequence in "Dark Dawn".
Each of these must be earned individually; they are usually find in dungeons that not must to visit.
In "Dark Dawn", 83 Djinn are introduced.
72 Djinn are obtainable by the player, and 11 are only apper in the plot that can't really got.
Djinn allow for a large array of possible class setups for all eight playable characters.
This allows for a large kind of combat ways.
In the past of Weyard, Alchemy was used for developing culture.
However, use Alchemy as a wrong way would destroy the world, so Alchemy was sealed in Mount Aleph.
In the beginning of first game, Alchemy was released, so a group of heroes travel to reseal Alchemy.
In the second game, it is find that without Alchemy, the ancient culture began to lost, and the world will disapper without the powers of Alchemy.
In the predecessors, Isaac and Felix let Alchemy return to the world.
The story of Dark Dawn begins thirty years after the end of The Lost Age.
Due to Isaac and the others bringing the power of the Golden Sun to Weyard, continents have moved, new countries have set up, and new species have appeared.
However, Psynergy Vortexes, which take the elemental Psynergy from both the earth and the Adepts (who can control Alchemy), are appearing all over Weyard.
In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn, player can control eight characters totally.
Venus Adept captain Matthew is the son of Isaac and Jenna, he is silent but strong-willed.
Mars Adept Tyrell is son of Garet, though he likes to play tricks, he is the best friend of Matthew.
Wind Adept Karis is the daughter of Ivan, usually visits and plays with Matthew and Tyrell who live in Lookout Cabin.
Mercury Adept Rief is the son of Mia, he is travelling with tutor Kraden.
Mercury Adept Amiti is the prince of Ayuthay and his lot is a mystery.
Beastman Sveta is the sister of the ruler of Morgal, she can incarnat a beastman to protect friends in a battle.
Mars Adept Eoleo is the son of Briggs, he also appeared in The Lost Age and now he is a pirate.
Venus Adept Himi is the daughter of Susa, who is a seer with powerful Psynergy.
Blados and Chalis are from Tuaparang, a mysterious country where they have science and military power, and a masked man named Arcanus actions with them together.
The story of Dark Dawn begins thirty years after the conclusion of The Lost Age.
Due to Isaac and the others bringing the power of the Golden Sun to Weyard, continents have changed, new countries was set up, and new species have appeared.
However, Psynergy Vortexes, which absorb the elemental Psynergy from both the land and the power-wielding Adepts, are appearing all over Weyard.
The children of the previous games' heroes – Matthew, Karis, and Tyrell – set out to solve the mystery of the vortexes, and cross a world that is succumbing to a new evil.
Tyrell destroyed soarwing that made by Ivan, so Isaac sends him out with Matthew and Karis to find a feather of the Mountain Roc to make a new one.
Along the way, they met the bad person Blados, Chalis, and Arcanus.
After Rief left Kraden and his sister Nowell, he joins Matthew's party to meet Kraden.
After making two Alchemy Machines (a Forge and a Well) running they come to the country of Morgal, where beastmen live.
They get the Roc feather quickly, however, they were tricked into activating the Luna Tower, the Grave Eclipse cover much parts of earth and takes death and pains.
The children then fight to end the eclipse by activating Apollo's Lens, an alchemy machine powered by the Alchemy Forge and Alchemy Well.
For this, they and defeating Blados, Chalis and a dark monster who changed by Sveta's brother.
After activating the Apollo's lens and stopping the Grave Eclipse, they and new friends return to their own homes.
However, when they return to the home, a unusually large Psynergy Vortex greeting them.
After previous Golden Sun: The Lost Age was released in 2003, there are many players talk about a third entry in the Golden Sun series.
In 2003, developer Camelot said "the current status of a third game ... is still up in the air",.
In a 2004 interview about the studio's founding brothers Hiroyuki and Shugo Takahashi, they said the first two games is for "prologues to the real event yet to come".
At this time, someone said third title might pubilshed on the Nintendo GameCube.
Due to less update information about new game, there were some hoaxes.
One of hoax is a Nintendo DS game called Golden Sun: The Solar Soothsayer, which said that would shown at a small pre-E3 2007 shown.
Official said this information is no really, and the hoax's author explain that he wants to make more talks for new game.
There are also many talks about the third Golden Sun title.
In October 2007, Takahashi brothers said they still wanted to and "have to" make a third game, and Nintendo also asked them to make another.
They said they just wished to give the title time to developing, so they didn't make a game now.
In April 2008, Nintendo Power magazine interviewed Shugo Takahashi on one of his latest games.
When they asked about a third Golden Sun, Takahashi replied "A new Golden Sun?
Well, I personally think that I want to play a new RPG, too..."
Golden Sun DS was finally announced during Nintendo's press conference at E3 2009, with a release date set for the 2010 holiday season.
Media shows that elemental Djinn (likely it previous, earth, fire, wind, and water, also refer to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury) and certain summons will return from the previous games in the series.
At E3 2010, the title's name was public as Golden Sun: Dark Dawn and a playable demo was made available to who join E3.
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn had mixed reviews from critics.
It is ranked 79% on Metacritic and 80% on GameRankings.
The game was not as well received as its predecessors: Golden Sun received a 91% and a 90% on Metacritic and GameRankings, and The Lost Age received an 86% and an 87%.
Reviews usually praise the game's graphics and Djinni system.
While GameSpot said "the visuals have brought the 2D world of the GBA games into full 3D on the DS to good effect", 1UP.com praises the game's battle graphics are "vivid [and] never grow tedious or overblown".
GamesRadar said the game's unusual Djinni system let "veteran RPG players won't be bored with the gameplay".
Game Revolution praises the game's puzzle setting like its predecessor that "are rarely very difficult, but the sense of satisfaction you get after grabbing your elusive reward is still like crack for the exploratory player".
Besides, the game's encyclopedia system can let a new player get familiar with the previous games, gaming blog Kotaku said it's "extremely newbie friendly".
Criticism of the game is that battle is easy and cut-scenes dialogue is too long.
Game Revolution said battle can "[use] the Djinn and subsequently summoning monsters ... pound on your enemies with attacks instead".
1UP.com said the game's long dialogue is just like its predecessors that "heroes and villains have an uncanny knack for saying incredibly simple things with about three or four times the words they actually need to convey those ideas".
This entry adds a emotion system that can silence other characters' replies, however, reviews think it's unnecessary and can't really effect plot.
A farad is a unit of measurement used in electronics.
It is used for capacitance, which is the ability to store electric charge.
The unit is named after the English physicist Michael Faraday.
The different sizes of farad are: farads (F), millifarads (mF), microfarads (μF), nanofarads (nF) or picofarads (pF).
The farad is a large unit of capacitance.
Typical devices in electronics have capacitances ranging from microfarads to picofarads.
Some supercapacitors have more than one farad.
Jacme Taupiac (born 12 February 1939) is an Occitan author and linguist.
He was one of the leaders of the Institut d'Estudis Occitans.
He also modernized the Occitan grammar of Alibèrt and promoted the linguistic normalization of Val d'Aran.
He is also a recognized Esperantist.
Biography on the magazine Calenda
Ampere, a unit of electrical current
Adenosine monophosphate, nucleotide found in RNA
Amphetamine, medicine used for treatment of ADHD and certain sleep disorders
Ampicillin, common antibiotic used in bacteria culture
Amplifier, device that increases the amplitude of a signal
Ampoule, medical container
Antimicrobial peptides, immune system peptides
AMP deaminase, a human enzyme encoded by the AMPD1 gene
AMP Limited, Australian financial services company or one of its buildings:
AMP Building, Perth, Australia, see 140 St Georges Terrace
AMP Building, Hobart, Australia
AMP Centre, Sydney, Australia
AMP Place, Brisbane, Australia
AMP Society Building, Wellington, New Zealand
AMP Capital, a subsidiary
AMP Incorporated, US company purchased by Tyco International in 1999
Alliance of the Presidential Majority (French: Alliance pour la majorité présidentielle), political platform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Americans for Medical Progress, medical research charity
Ameriprise Financial, finance company spun off from American Express in 2005
Anjaman Mozareen Punjab, small peasants organisation fighting for land rights in Okara, Lahore, Renala Khurd and Depalpur in Pakistan
Applied Measurement Professionals, a company specializing in examinations for certification and licensure
AMP (solution stack) or "Apache, MySQL and PHP", software products commonly used together
Ampersand, printable character
Asymmetric multiprocessing, variety of processors for different tasks
Alternative MAC/PHY, part of the Bluetooth specification as of version 3.0
AMP Radio Networks, Malaysian-based radio company
Adobe Media Player, media player from Adobe
Adventures in Motion Pictures, UK ballet company
After Midnight Project, Los Angeles alternative rock band
Amp (TV series), music video show on MTV
Amp (band), rock and electronic band
Australian Music Prize, annual Australian music award
Amp (comics), a Marvel Comics fictional mutant
The Amp, a British music video channel
Guitar amplifier
Instrument amplifier, device for amplifying electric instruments
AMP Energy, drink made by PepsiCo
Advanced Manufacturing Park, manufacturing technology park in the United Kingdom
Advanced Mobile Phone System, first-generation analog cellular technology
Air Member for Personnel, senior appointment in the Royal Air Force
AutoMag (pistol), automatic Magnum pistol
Advanced Management Program (disambiguation), education program offered by several organizations
Amp Electric Vehicles, an electric vehicle maker
Asset Management Plan
Amp Lee (born 1971)
Amplified Bible, an English translation of the Bible
Intensive farming or intensive agriculture is a kind of farming where a lot of money and labour are used to increase the yield that can be obtained per area of land.
The use of large amounts of pesticides for crops, and of medication for animal stocks is common.
This is a contrast to traditional agriculture, which does not get as much output per area.
When agriculture is intensified, this means that the amount of work needed goes up, until the worker is replaced by a machine.
At that point, there will only need to be a few workers to operate the machines.
Intensive farming has often been done as a response to rising population levels.
It is criticised, because the standards of animal welfare are low.
Intensive animal farming leads to increased pollution and to health issues.
Modern day forms of intensive crop based agriculture involve the use of mechanical ploughing, chemical fertilizers, plant growth regulators or pesticides.
It is associated with the increasing use of agricultural mechanization, which have enabled a substantial increase in production, yet have also dramatically increased environmental pollution by increasing erosion and poisoning water with agricultural chemicals.
Agricultural development in Britain between the 16th century and the mid-19th century saw a massive increase in agricultural productivity and output.
This in turn contributed to increase in population growth.
Industrial agriculture arose in the Industrial Revolution.
By the early 19th century, agricultural techniques, implements, seed stocks, and cultivars had improved so much.
Horse-drawn machinery such as the McCormick reaper improved harvesting.
Inventions such as the cotton gin reduced the cost of processing.
During this same period, farmers began to use threshers and tractors that were powered with steam.
In 1892, the first gasoline-powered tractor was successfully made.
Mechanical harvesters, planters, transplanters, and other equipment were then developed, further improved agriculture.
These inventions increased yields and allowed individual farmers to manage larger farms.
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) were discovered to be very important in plant growth.
This led to the manufacture of synthetic fertilizers, further increasing crop yields.
The discovery of vitamins and their role in nutrition, in the first two decades of the 20th century, led to vitamin supplements, which in the 1920s allowed some livestock to be raised indoors, reducing their exposure to adverse natural elements.[citation needed]
The discovery of antibiotics and vaccines improved the raising of livestock by reducing diseases.
Developments in refrigeration as well as food processing technology made it possible to transport goods over long distances.
There are concerns over the sustainability of industrial agriculture, and the environmental effects of fertilizers and pesticides.
This has led to people buying organic food.
It has also led to the funding for the development of sustainable technology.
Intensive farming has many characteristics.
Large capital/finance requirements
Use of lots of agrochemicals (e.g. pesticides and fertilizer)
Improved varieties of crops and animals
Lots of surplus yield for sale
Use of modern techniques and machinery
It is performed on huge plots of land
Reliance on skilled labour
Very high yields
is a Japanese volcanic complex in the area south-east of Mount Fuji.
Its highest peak is Mount Echizen-dake 1504 meters high, but Mount Ashitaka is named after its secondary peak, Ashitaka-yama, 1188 meters high.
Mount Ashitaka erupted in the mid-Pleistocene epoch.
It last erupted about 100,000 years ago.
It is an extinct volcano.
SpringerImages,  "Simplified geologic cross-section of Fuji and Ashitaka Volcanoes"
Hill was born into a prosperous middle class family of Methodists in York.
His father was a solicitor.
He attended St Peter's School, York.
When he sat his entrance examination at Balliol College, Oxford, The two history tutors from Balliol College, recognised his ability and offred him a place to forestall any chance he might go to Cambridge.
Laurean Rugambwa (July 12, 1912 – December 8, 1997) was a Tanzanian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
He is known as the first cardinal from sub-Saharan Africa.
Laurean Rugambwa was born in Bukongo, Tanganyika (modern Tanzania).
He became a priest in 1943.
In Rome, he studied Canon law at the Pontifical Urban College.
In the early 1950s, Rugambwa became a bishop.
He was the first Tanzanian bishop.
Rugambwa was made a cardinal by Pope John XXIII in 1960.
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Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church,Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
Catholic Hierarchy, Catholic-Hierarchy
Rufino Jiao Santos (August 26, 1908–September 3, 1973) was a Filipino priest of the Roman Catholic Church.
He is known as the first Filipino Cardinal.
Rufino Santos was born in Guagua, Pampanga.
Santos studied at San Carlos Seminary from 1921 to 1927.
He also studied at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Santos became a priest in 1931.
He was ordained at the Basilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome.
Santos became a bishop in 1947.
He was made archbishop of Manila on March 25, 1953.
Rufino Cardinal Santos at Catholic Hierarchy
The Temple of Hera (Heraion) is a temple dedicated to Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage.
She was the wife of Zeus, the greatest of the Greek gods.
The temple was built about 600 BC at Olympia, Greece.
It is one of the oldest temples in Greece.
It measures 50 meters by 18.75 meters.
It was about 7.80 meters high.
It had six Doric columns at either end and sixteen Doric columns on each side.
The columns were originally made of wood, but were replaced with limestone at different times.
The temple was destroyed by an earthquake in the early 4th century AD.
A statue of Hera was seated on a throne at the eastern end of the cella.
A stone head that may be Hera survives.
Next to Hera stood a statue of Zeus dressed as a warrior.
The famous statue of Hermes and the Infant Dionysos of Praxiteles was kept in the temple.
At the western end of the temple was kept the table that held the wreaths for the victors of the Olympic Games.
Other valuable items were also kept at the western end.
Winners of the ancient all-female Heraia had the right to dedicate their statues to the temple.
It was at these footraces that the statue of Hera was dressed every four years in a robe made by the women of Elis.
The modern Olympic Flame is lit at the Altar of Hera which stands to the east of the temple.
The German Archaeological Institute restored some of the columns in the late 20th century as well as the great circular akroterion of the temple.
The akroterion is displayed in the Olympia museum.
Hera at Olympia
Big Time Rush, (also known as BTR), is a television series that airs on the Nickelodeon network.
It is about four Minnesota teenagers, played by Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos Pena, Jr. and Logan Henderson, who form a boy band and move to Hollywood, California.
Ciara Bravo, Tanya Chisholm, and Stephen Kramer Glickman co-star.
is a famous opera house in Venice, Italy.
People often call it simply .
Its name comes from the Italian word Fenice, meaning Phoenix.
The Phoenix is a mythical bird.
It dies in fire and is born again from the ashes.
An older opera house in Venice called the  burnt down in 1774.
It was the main, opera house in Venice.
Some noblemen built it again, but the Venier, a famous family in Venice, made them sell the new theatre to them.
So, the noblemen built a new opera house in 1792.
They called it Teatro La Fenice.
The first opera performed there was Giovanni Paisiello's  (The Games of Agrigento).
La Fenice burnt down in 1836.
It was built again in 1837.
On 29 January 1996, La Fenice burnt down again.
It was set on fire by two men working on the building.
They were sent to prison for arson.
La Fenice was built again in 2003 in the style of the old one.
The architect, Aldo Rossi, used pictures and movies of the old La Fenice to plan the new one.
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Beauvert, Thierry (1996).
Opera Houses of the World.
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The Australian Music Prize (The AMP) is a yearly award for an Australian band or solo artist.
It is $30,000.
The AMP was formed in 2005.
The list of nominees is given in February.
The winner is announced at an event in Sydney in March.
Past winners and short list nominees
Polaris Music Prize (Canada)
Prix Constantin (France)
Choice Music Prize (Ireland)
Mercury Prize (United Kingdom)
Shortlist Music Prize (United States)
AMP Website
The Polaris Music Prize is a music award given each year to the best full-length Canadian album.
It is for artistic merit, regardless of genre, sales, or record label.
The award was formed in 2006 with a $20,000 cash prize.
the prize was increased to $30,000 for the 2011 award.
This list of nominees is released in early July.
A group of 11 jury members ("The Grand Jury") meet in Toronto at the Polaris Music Prize gala in late September.
The winner is picked after the nominated bands perform.
Mercury Music Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland)
Australian Music Prize (Australia)
Shortlist Prize (United States)
Entertainment in Canada
Pankration was a sport in Ancient Greece.
Eight of Pindar's odes were written in honor of pankratiasts.
The pankration was a form of wrestling with one difference: the athletes were allowed to use their fists.
They did not wear boxing thongs however.
Kicking and hitting were allowed but biting and gouging an eye or soft spot with a thumb or finger were forbidden.
Umpires flogged athletes who violated these rules.
In spite of this punishment, violations often occurred.
A Greek wrestler aimed to throw his opponent; a pankratiast however aimed to force his opponent to concede defeat.
This might be done by getting an opponent in a hold that, if he did not yield (give up), a bone would be broken or a joint dislocated.
Size and weight did not matter as much in the pankration as they did in boxing and wrestling because pankratiasts spent most of their time rolling around on the ground.
The Greeks loved the pankration.
They considered it the greatest test of an athlete's skill and strength.
The pankration was also a favorite sport in Roman imperial times.
The most famous ancient pankratiast was Arrichon of Philageia in the 6th century BC.
He won the pankration in two Olympics, but died of a stranglehold in the Olympics of 564 BC.
He was awarded the victor's wreath.
Both Philostratus and Pausanias told the story of his final bout.
A statue in the Olympia Museum may be his.
Gallery: Pankrationiasts on Greek pottery
The Prix Constantin is a yearly French music prize.
It is awarded to the best album of an artist who has come to fame during the past year.
Its basic purpose is to help newer artists who are not very popular to gain publicity.
All albums made in France in the past year are able to win.
The Prix Constantin is named after the record industry figure Philippe Constantin, who died in 1996.
The Mercury Music Prize was used as an example on making the award.
Arnaud Fleurent-Didier – La reproduction
Camelia Jordana – Camelia Jordana
Féfé – Jeune à la retraite
Gush – Everybody's god
Stromae – Stromae
Ben l'Oncle Soul – Ben l'Oncle Soul
Carmen Maria Vega – Carmen Maria Vega
Féloche – La vie Cajun
Zaz – ZAZ
Babx – Cristal Ballroom
Birdy Nam Nam – Manual for Successful Rioting
Diving with Andy – Sugar Sugar
Dominique A – La Musique
Fredo Viola – The Turn
Hugh Coltman – Stories from the Safe House
Orelsan – Perdu d'avance
Piers Faccini – Two Grains of Sand
Yodelice – Tree of Life
Arman Méliès – Casino
Barbara Carlotti – L'Idéal
Cocoon – My Friends All Died in a Plane Crash
Joseph D'Anvers – Les jours sauvages
Julien Doré – Ersatz
Moriarty – Gee Whiz But This Is a Lonesome Town
The Dø – A Mouthful
Thomas Dutronc – Comme un manouche sans guitare
Yael Naïm and David Donatien – Yael Naim
AaRON – Artificial Animals Riding On Neverland
Florent Marchet – Rio Baril
Justice – †
Kaolin – Mélanger les couleurs
Keny Arkana – Entre ciment et belle étoile
Keren Ann – Keren Ann
Ours – Mi
Renan Luce – Repenti
Rose – Rose
Anis – La chance
Ayo – Joyful
Clarika – Joker
Emily Loizeau – L'autre bout du monde
Grand Corps Malade – Midi 20
Jehro – Jehro
Katerine – Robots après tout
Olivia Ruiz – La femme chocolat
Phoenix – It's Never Been Like That
Amadou & Mariam – Dimanche à Bamako
Anaïs – The Cheap Show
Bazbaz – Sur le bout de la langue
Bertrand Betsch – Pas de bras, pas de chocolat
Pauline Croze – Pauline Croze
Albin de la Simone – Je vais changer
Alexis HK – L’homme du moment
Franck Monnet – Au grand jour
Nosfell – Pomaïe klokochazia balek
Pierre Bondu – Quelqu'un quelque part
Jeanne Cherhal – Douze fois par an
Daniel Darc – Crève coeur
Feist – Let It Die
Florent Marchet – Gargilesse
JP Nataf – Plus de sucre
Ridan – Le rêve ou la vie
Tété – A la faveur de l'automne
Rokia Traoré – Bowmboï
A.S. Dragon – Spanked
Benjamin Biolay – Négatif
Carla Bruni – Quelqu'un m'a dit
Diam's – Brut de femme
Alexis HK – Belle Ville
Malia – Yellow Daffodils
Massilia Sound System – Occitanista
Raphael – La réalité
Emilie Simon – Emilie Simon
Bumcello – Nude for love
Bénabar – Bénabar
Danyel Waro – Bwarouz
Dionysos – Western sous la neige
Gotan Project – La Revancha del Tango
Le Peuple de L'Herbe – P, H test/two
Renaud Papillon Paravel – La surface de réparation
Tiken Jah Fakoly – Françafrique
Vincent Delerm – Vincent Delerm
Milo of Croton was a 6th century BC Greek wrestler.
He came from the Greek city of Croton in southern Italy.
He had great success as a wrestler.
He won many times in the most important sports festivals of ancient Greece.
He also led the people of Croton to a military victory over the neighboring city of Sybaris in 510 BC.
Milo was said to be a friend of Pythagoras.
One story says the wrestler saved the philosopher's life when a roof was about to fall on him.
Another story says that Milo may have married the philosopher's daughter.
Like other successful athletes of ancient Greece, Milo was the subject of tales of strength and power.
Among other tales, he was said to have carried a bull on his shoulders and to have burst a band about his forehead by inflating the veins of his temples.
The date of Milo's death is unknown.
He was said to be splitting a tree in half when his hands became trapped in the tree.
It was then that a pack of wolves surprised, killed, and ate him.
Milo is the subject of works of art by Pierre Puget, Étienne-Maurice Falconet and others.
In literature, Rabelais wrote about him in Gargantua and Pantagruel and Shakespeare did the same in Troilus and Cressida.
Ancient sportspeople
The Choice Music Prize is a yearly music prize awarded to the best album from Ireland.
It has been sponsored by Meteor since 2011.
Winners and shortlisted nominees
Choice Music Prize official site
The Mercury Prize, called the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is a yearly music prize.
It is awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland.
It was formed by the British Phonographic Industry and British Association of Record Dealers in 1992.
It was an alternative to the Brit Awards.
It used to be called the Mercury Music Prize.
The prize was first sponsored by Mercury Communications.
It was later sponsored by Technics, from 1998 to 2001.
Then Panasonic, in 2002 and 2003, and the Nationwide Building Society, from 2004 to 2008.
Barclaycard became the Prize's current sponsor in March 2009.
Nominations are announced in July.
Presentation of the award usually takes place in September.
Theogenes was one of the greatest athletes in Ancient Greece.
He was born in the city of Thasos on the island of the same name in the Aegean Sea in the early fifth century.
He was a boxer and a pankrationiast.
He had two victories at the Olympic Games.
One was in boxing (480 BCE) and the other in the pankration (476).
He won three times in boxing at the Pythian Games; nine times in boxing and once in the pankration at the Isthmian Games; and nine times in boxing at the Nemean Games.
He also won the long distance race at Argos.
He had 1300 other victories in lesser Games.
It is certain that Theogenes was worshipped as a god in Thasos after his death.
One of his enemies whipped his statue.
It fell and crushed him to death.
The people of Thasos threw the statue into the sea.
It was stained with blood.
The fields did not produce after this act.
The people of Thasos pulled the statue from the sea and put it back in its place.
Worship continued.
Theogenes was said to heal diseases.
Cougar Town is an American television sitcom.
It was first on ABC on September 23, 2009.
The show is set in Gulfhaven, Florida (nicknamed "Cougar Town" since its high school teams are the Cougars).
The series focuses on a recently divorced woman in her forties.
The star is Courteney Cox who plays Jules Cobb.
Kleomedes of Astypalia was an Ancient Greek boxer.
Using illegal tactics, he killed his opponent Ikkos in either the 71st or 72nd Olympic Games (496 or 492 BCE).
What exactly occurred is not certain.
He was disqualified though and heavily fined.
Kleomedes was so angry he returned to his home town, and pulled out a post supporting a school roof.
Many children were killed.
The people stoned him.
He ran into a temple and climbed into a chest.
When the people opened it, he was gone.
The oracle ordered the people to worship Kleomedes as a hero and a divinity.
Fischer was the founder of the chemistry of primary natural products: carbohydrates, purines and nucleosides, peptides and proteins.
Amongst his many discoveries were the structure of carbohydrates, and he was the first to get synthetic peptides.
He studied the active principles of tea, coffee and cocoa, namely, caffeine and theobromine.
Fischer was married to Agnes Gerlach in Feb. 1888, but she died seven years after their marriage.
They had three sons, named Hermann Otto Laurenz Fischer (16.
Dec. 1888 - 09.
Mar. 1960) Walter (05.
Jul. 1891 – 04.
Nov. 1916) and Alfred (3.
Oct. 1894 – 29.
Mar. 1917).
Alfred was killed in World War I, Walter committed suicide at the age of 25 as a result of compulsory military training.
Samosa is a popular snack originally from Central Asia.
It further travelled, with the help of Muslim merchants of trade routes to India.
It is famous in the Indian subcontinent as well as Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Southwest Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, North Africa, as well as South Africa.
It is generally prepared  in the shape of a triangle, however, the shape and sizes tend to vary from region to region.
It can be either baked or fried and has an outer hard crust made of plain flour.
It usually has a filling of potatoes and spices.
It is usually eaten with a spicy sauce called chutney.
The English word samosa derives from Hindi/Urdu word '',traceable to the Middle Persian word  () or Sagosha means (triangle), and has the meaning of the "triangular pastry".
The South Asian samosa has a Central Asian and/or Middle Eastern origin.
Regional varieties
The samosa is prepared with an all-purpose flour (locally known as maida) and stuffed with a filling, often a mixture of diced and cooked or mashed boiled potato (preferably diced), onions, green peas, lentils, ginger, spices and green chili.
Samosas generally are deep-fried to a golden brown in vegetable oil.
They are served hot and consumed with ketchup or chutney (mint, coriander, or tamarind), or are served in chaat, traditionally accompanied by yogurt, chutney, chopped onions, coriander, and chaat masala.
Shingaras may be eaten as a tea time snack.
They can also be prepared in a sweet form.
Bengali shingaras tend to be triangular, filled with potato, peas, onions, diced almonds, or other vegetables, and are more heavily fried and crunchier than either shingaras or their Indian samosa cousins.
Fulkopir shingara (shingara filled with cauliflower mixture) is a popular variation.
Samosa is also an appetiser in Iran  and Pakistan.
It is believed to have originated from the Central and West Asia.
The word samosa originates from the Persian word sanbosag or Sagoshag means small triangle .
Miss May I is an American metal band from Troy, Ohio.
Miss May I has five members in the band; the current band members are Levi Benton, Ryan Neff, Jerod Boyd, Justin Aufdemkampe and B.J. Stead.
The band was formed in 2006.
They released an EP titled "Vows for a Massacre" which was later followed by a demo in 2008.
They were signed to Rise Records after the release of their debut album, Apologies Are for the Weak, on June 23, 2009.
Their song "Forgive and Forget" appeared on the Saw VI: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Their song "Apologies Are for the Weak" which is the title track from the album of the same name was featured in the 2011 video game Saints Row: The Third.
The band was announced to appear at the Warped Tour 2012 which started June 16, 2012 and ends on November 10, 2012.
Justin Aufdemkampe - lead guitar (2006-present)
Levi Benton - lead vocals (2006-present)
Jerod Boyd - drums (2006-present)
Ryan Neff - bass guitar, clean vocals (2006–2007, 2009–present)
B.J. Stead - rhythm guitar (2006-present)
Josh Gillespie - bass guitar, clean vocals (2007–2009)
Vows for a Massacre (2007)
Demo 2008 (2008)
Apologies Are for the Weak (2009)
Monument (2010)
At Heart (2012)
Rise of the Lion (2014)
Miss May I  on Rise Records
Miss May I on Myspace
Miss May I on Facebook
The knockout stage of the UEFA Euro 2012 began on June 21, 2012 and ended on July 1, 2012.
Eight teams qualified, two from each group.
Poland and the Ukraine failed to qualify for the knockout stage.
Czech Republic vs Portugal
Germany vs Greece
Spain vs France
England vs Italy
Portugal vs Spain
Germany vs Italy
Spain vs Italy
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (December 16, 1863–September 26, 1952), also known as George Santayana,  was a Spanish American academic, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it",
"[O]nly the dead have seen the end of war."
Santayana was born on December 16, 1863 in Madrid.
He spent his early childhood in Ávila.
He earned a Ph.D. at Harvard in 1889.
He also studied in Berlin and Cambridge.
Santayana taught philosophy at Harvard.
Some of his students were T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gertrude Stein, Walter Lippmann, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
1905–1906.
The Life of Reason: Or, The Phases of Human Progress, 5 vols.
Available free online from Project Gutenberg.
abridgement by the author and Daniel Cory.
Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe.
Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion.
Egotism in German Philosophy.
Character and Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America.
Little Essays, Drawn From the Writings of George Santayana by Logan Pearsall Smith, With the Collaboration of the Author.
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies.
Scepticism and Animal Faith: Introduction to a System of Philosophy.
Platonism and the Spiritual Life.
1927–40.
The Realms of Being, 4 vols.
The Genteel Tradition at Bay.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy: Five Essays.
Obiter Scripta: Lectures, Essays and Reviews.
Justus Buchler and Benjamin Schwartz, eds.
The Idea of Christ in the Gospels; or, God in Man: A Critical Essay.
Dialogues in Limbo, With Three New Dialogues.
Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government.
The Letters of George Santayana.
Daniel Cory, ed.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
New York. (
296 letters)
Essays in Literary Criticism of George Santayana.
Irving Singer, ed.
The Idler and His Works, and Other Essays.
The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays by George Santayana.
Douglas L. Wilson, ed.
George Santayana's America: Essays on Literature and Culture.
James Ballowe, ed.
Animal Faith and Spiritual Life: Previously Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by George Santayana With Critical Essays on His Thought.
Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy.
Richard Colton Lyon, ed.
Selected Critical Writings of George Santayana, 2 vols.
Norman Henfrey, ed.
Physical Order and Moral Liberty: Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana.
John and Shirley Lachs, eds.
The Complete Poems of George Santayana: A Critical Edition.
Edited, with an introduction, by W. G. Holzberger.
Bucknell University Press.
The Birth of Reason and Other Essays.
Daniel Cory, ed.,
with an Introduction by Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. Columbia Univ.
The Essential Santayana.
Selected Writings Edited by the Santayana Edition, Compiled and with an introduction by Martin A. Coleman.
Luigi Pirandello (Agrigento 28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian playwright, novelist, and short story writer.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage".
Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian.
Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners for Theatre of the Absurd.
Una boccata d'aria (A Breath of Air)
L'Esclusa (The Excluded Woman)
Il Turno (The Turn)
Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mattia Pascal)
Suo Marito (Her Husband)
I Vecchi e I Giovani (The Old and the Young)
Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio (Serafino Gubbio's Journals)
Uno, Nessuno e Centomila (One, No one and One Hundred Thousand)
Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author)
Ciascuno a Suo Modo (Each In His Own Way)
Questa Sera Si Recita a Soggetto (Tonight We Improvise)
Enrico IV (Henry IV)
L'Uomo dal Fiore in Bocca (The Man With The Flower In His Mouth)
La Vita che ti Diedi (The Life I Gave You)
Il Gioco delle Parti (The Rules of the Game)
Diana e La Tuda (Diana and Tuda)
Il Piacere dell'Onestà (The Pleasure Of Honesty)
L'Imbecille (The Imbecile)
L'Uomo, La Bestia e La Virtù (The Man, The Beast and The Virtue)
Vestire gli Ignudi (Clothing The Naked)
Così è (Se Vi Pare) (So It Is (If You Think So))
Albert "Al" Harrington (born February 17, 1980 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player.
He plays for the NBA's Denver Nuggets.
The forward stands six feet nine inches (2.06 m), and weighs 250 pounds (113 kg).
At only 18 years of age, Al was selected by the Indiana Pacers.
He was the 25th pick of the 1998 NBA Draft.
On July 15, 2004, Harrington was traded to the Atlanta Hawks for Stephen Jackson.
After the 2005–06 NBA season he became a free agent.
For the 2006–07 season he went with the Pacers again.
On January 17, 2007, Harrington was traded to the Golden State Warriors along with teammates Stephen Jackson, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, and Josh Powell for Troy Murphy, Mike Dunleavy, Ike Diogu, and Keith McLeod.
On November 21, Harrington was traded to the New York Knicks for guard Jamal Crawford.
On July 15, 2010, Al Harrington signed a contract with the Denver Nuggets
Stats at basketball-reference.com
Andrew Michael Bogut  (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player.
He plays for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
He is 7 feet tall.
He went to the University of Utah for college.
Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft.