the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
Roannes-Saint-Mary (15163)
Rouffiac (15165)
Le Rouget-Pers (15268)
Roumégoux (15166)
Rouziers (15167)
Saint-Antoine (15172)
Saint-Cernin (15175)
Saint-Cirgues-de-Jordanne (15178)
Saint-Cirgues-de-Malbert (15179)
Saint-Clément (15180)
Saint-Constant-Fournoulès (15181)
Saint-Étienne-Cantalès (15182)
Saint-Étienne-de-Carlat (15183)
Saint-Étienne-de-Maurs (15184)
Saint-Gérons (15189)
Saint-Illide (15191)
Saint-Jacques-des-Blats (15192)
Saint-Julien-de-Toursac (15194)
Saint-Mamet-la-Salvetat (15196)
Saint-Paul-des-Landes (15204)
Saint-Santin-Cantalès (15211)
Saint-Santin-de-Maurs (15212)
Saint-Saury (15214)
Saint-Simon (15215)
Saint-Victor (15217)
Sansac-Veinazès (15222)
Sansac-de-Marmiesse (15221)
La Ségalassière (15224)
Sénezergues (15226)
Siran (15228)
Teissières-de-Cornet (15233)
Teissières-lès-Bouliès (15234)
Thiézac (15236)
Tournemire (15238)
Le Trioulou (15242)
Velzic (15252)
Vézac (15255)
Vezels-Roussy (15257)
Vic-sur-Cère (15258)
Vieillevie (15260)
Vitrac (15264)
Yolet (15266)
Ytrac (15267)
The arrondissement of Mauriac is an arrondissement of France.
Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Mauriac.
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Mauriac was one of them in the Cantal department.
The arrondissement of Mauriac is in the northwest of the department and has an area of , the smallest and with fewest people living in it with 26,192 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement is bordered to the north and west by the Corrèze department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), to the northeast by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the arrondissement of Saint-Flour and to the south by the arrondissement of Aurillac.
In the arrondissement of Mauriac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement, Naucelles and Riom-ès-Montagnes.
The arrondissement of Mauriac has 55 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Ally (15003)
Anglards-de-Salers (15006)
Antignac (15008)
Apchon (15009)
Arches (15010)
Auzers (15015)
Barriac-les-Bosquets (15018)
Bassignac (15019)
Beaulieu (15020)
Brageac (15024)
Chalvignac (15036)
Champagnac (15037)
Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal (15038)
Chaussenac (15046)
Collandres (15052)
Drugeac (15063)
Escorailles (15064)
Fontanges (15070)
Jaleyrac (15079)
La Monselie (15128)
Lanobre (15092)
Le Falgoux (15066)
Le Fau (15067)
Le Monteil (15131)
Le Vaulmier (15249)
Le Vigean (15261)
Madic (15111)
Mauriac (15120)
Menet (15124)
Moussages (15137)
Méallet (15123)
Pleaux (15153)
Riom-ès-Montagnes (15162)
Saignes (15169)
Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers (15174)
Saint-Chamant (15176)
Saint-Hippolyte (15190)
Saint-Martin-Cantalès (15200)
Saint-Martin-Valmeroux (15202)
Saint-Paul-de-Salers (15205)
Saint-Pierre (15206)
Saint-Projet-de-Salers (15208)
Saint-Vincent-de-Salers (15218)
Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil (15185)
Sainte-Eulalie (15186)
Salers (15219)
Salins (15220)
Sauvat (15223)
Sourniac (15230)
Trizac (15243)
Trémouille (15240)
Valette (15246)
Vebret (15250)
Veyrières (15254)
Ydes (15265)
Buchenberg is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
Between 1988 and 2008 Buchenberg grew by 412 people.
Toni Barth has been mayor of Buchenberg since March 2004.
He is currently in his third term of office as mayor.
The arrondissement of Saint-Flour is an arrondissement of France.
Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Saint-Flour.
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Saint-Flour was one of them in the Cantal department.
The arrondissement of Saint-Flour is in the most eastern arrondissement of the department and has an area of , the largest in the department, and a population of 38,079 inhabitants with a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the Haute-Loire department, to the southeast by the Lozère department (Occitanie), to the southeast by the Aveyron department (Occitanie) and to the west by the arrondissements of Aurillac and Mauriac.
In the arrondissement of Saint-Flour, there is only one canton where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement: the Riom-ès-Montagnes.
The arrondissement of Saint-Flour has 106 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Albepierre-Bredons (15025)
Allanche (15001)
Alleuze (15002)
Andelat (15004)
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour (15005)
Anterrieux (15007)
Auriac-l'Église (15013)
Bonnac (15022)
Brezons (15026)
Celles (15031)
Celoux (15032)
Cézens (15033)
Chaliers (15034)
Chalinargues (15035)
Chanterelle (15040)
La Chapelle-d'Alagnon (15041)
La Chapelle-Laurent (15042)
Charmensac (15043)
Chastel-sur-Murat (15044)
Chaudes-Aigues (15045)
Chavagnac (15047)
Chazelles (15048)
Cheylade (15049)
Le Claux (15050)
Clavières (15051)
Coltines (15053)
Condat (15054)
Coren (15055)
Cussac (15059)
Deux-Verges (15060)
Dienne (15061)
Espinasse (15065)
Ferrières-Saint-Mary (15069)
Fridefont (15073)
Gourdièges (15077)
Jabrun (15078)
Joursac (15080)
Lacapelle-Barrès (15086)
Landeyrat (15091)
Lastic (15097)
Laurie (15098)
Lavastrie (15099)
Laveissenet (15100)
Laveissière (15101)
Lavigerie (15102)
Leyvaux (15105)
Lieutadès (15106)
Lorcières (15107)
Lugarde (15110)
Malbo (15112)
Marcenat (15114)
Marchastel (15116)
Massiac (15119)
Maurines (15121)
Mentières (15125)
Molèdes (15126)
Molompize (15127)
Montboudif (15129)
Montchamp (15130)
Montgreleix (15132)
Murat (15138)
Narnhac (15139)
Neussargues-Moissac (15141)
Neuvéglise (15142)
Oradour (15145)
Paulhac (15148)
Paulhenc (15149)
Peyrusse (15151)
Pierrefort (15152)
Pradiers (15155)
Rageade (15158)
Rézentières (15161)
Roffiac (15164)
Ruynes-en-Margeride (15168)
Saint-Amandin (15170)
Saint-Bonnet-de-Condat (15173)
Sainte-Anastasie (15171)
Sainte-Marie (15198)
Saint-Flour (15187)
Saint-Georges (15188)
Saint-Martial (15199)
Saint-Martin-sous-Vigouroux (15201)
Saint-Mary-le-Plain (15203)
Saint-Poncy (15207)
Saint-Rémy-de-Chaudes-Aigues (15209)
Saint-Saturnin (15213)
Saint-Urcize (15216)
Ségur-les-Villas (15225)
Sériers (15227)
Soulages (15229)
Talizat (15231)
Tanavelle (15232)
Les Ternes (15235)
Tiviers (15237)
La Trinitat (15241)
Ussel (15244)
Vabres (15245)
Val d'Arcomie (15108)
Valjouze (15247)
Valuéjols (15248)
Védrines-Saint-Loup (15251)
Vernols (15253)
Vèze (15256)
Vieillespesse (15259)
Villedieu (15262)
Virargues (15263)
Burgberg is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
Between 1988 and 2008 Burgberg grew by 488 inhabitants.
Not to be confused with Naosaurus, a genus of pelycosaur.
Nurosaurus is the informal name given to a genus of Sauropod dinosaur.
It was from the Cretaceous period in Inner Mongolia, China.
It was a herbivore or plant-eater. "
Nurosaurus" grew to about  long.
The proposed binominal name is Nurosaurus qaganensis (Dong 1992).
Stanley Park is a park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The park opened on September 27, 1888.
It was named after Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby, the Governor General of Canada at the time.
It is the third largest urban park in North America.
It attracts about 8 million visitors every year.
Stanley Park is larger than New York City's Central Park.
In Stanley Park there is a large aquarium, a protected forest, the lost lagoon, totems and other attractions.
Stanley Park, Vancouver Tour; YouTube
Stanley Park Ecology Society
Dietmannsried is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
It is located  south of Memmingem, and  north of Kempten.
From 1988 to 2008 Dietmannsried grew by 1729 people.
Since 2014 the mayor has been Werner Andres.
The village came into international media attention in August 2008.
A light aircraft hit power lines nearby.
The pilot and passenger survived inside the plane dangling on power cables.
They were rescued in front of cameras.
Fischen im Allgäu is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
Fishcen is found  north of Oberstdorf.
It is on the banks of the river Iller.
Lída Baarova (born Ludmila Babková 7 September 1914 in Prague – 27 October 2000) was a Czech actress.
She studied acting at Conservatory and received her first  film role in Pavel Čamrda's Career (Kariéra Pavla Čamrdy), filming was forbidden for students, she made up pseudonym Lída Baarova after her father's friend J.Š.Baar at age 17.
The film was successful, so she had to leave the conservatory.
Lída was born in family of Karel Babka,an official of the Prague City Hall, his wife Ludmila Babková, opera singer and piano player, occasionally sang in the choir of National Theatre.
They also had second daughter Zorka, who was actress as well.
In 1934 Lída was chosen by the German UFA to act the lead role in, Barcarolle, .
Film that made her huge star overnight.
Media marked her as mistress of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
On the orders of Hitler himself, however, she had to leave, so she left Germany in 1939.
She left to Italy, where before the war returned to Prague.
At the end of the war fled to Germany but was interned by the US occupation authorities, was investigated by CIC and September 23, 1945 was handed over to Czechoslovakia.
She was in terrogated and imprisoned in Munich for alleged collaboration.
She spent 16 months in jail, but she was released on Christmas Eve 1946 after she was not found guilty.
Lída married J.Kopecký and in 1948 fled do Austria together.
In 1966 she was married again, with doctor Kurt Lundwalle and they lived together in Salzburg.
He died in 1972 and till her death she lived alone.
Baarova died in 2000 (she suffered from Parkinson's disease) and she's buried in Prague.
, I was foolish, stupid, drunk with glory and against my will I was really badly tangled in history.
`` she said about her life.
Walter Benz (May 2, 1931 – January 13, 2017) was a German mathematician, an expert in geometry.
Benz was born in Mainz, Germany.
He studied at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
After a position at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, he served as a professor at the Universities of Bochum, Waterloo and Hamburg where he was professor emeritus.
Benz was honoured with the degree of a Dr. h.c.
Inner product spaces over the real numbers were the basis of a 2007 book by Benz: Classical Geometries in Modern Contexts.
Oberwolfach Photo Collection
Tibetan antelope, also known as Chiru is a medium sized antelope most closely related to wild goats and sheep of the subfamily Caprinae.
Tibetan antelope are native to northwest India and Tibet.
They live on the treeless Steppe above .
They are an endangered species.
They are a target for hunters for their fine underfur called chiru.
It is used to make luxury shawls.
It takes about four animals to make a single shawl.
In order to collect the chiru, the animals must be killed.
Because of this the Chiru are close to extinction.
Chinese Scientists Witness Tibetan Antelopes' Life or Death Migration; YouTube
Sir John Gilbert Hanson (16 November 1938 – 13 January 2017) was a senior British diplomat, senior executive, historian, and academic.
He was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Hanson was the Director-General of the British Council between 1992 and 1998.
Hanson then became the Warden of Green College, University of Oxford from 1998 to 2006.
Under his leadership, Green College merged with Templeton College in 2008 to become Green Templeton College, located at what was previously Green College.
After the general elections held in 1983, Turgut Özal appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs from outside of the parliament.
In 1986, he was elected deputy of Ankara from the Motherland Party (ANAP).
He did not stand for election in the 1987 general elections and ended his political career.
Biyografi.net - Biography of Vahit Halefoğlu
Ambassadors of Turkey
The Roches (Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy Roche) were a vocal group of three songwriting Irish-American sisters from Park Ridge, New Jersey.
They were known for their "unusual" and "rich" harmonies, quirky lyrics, and casually comedic stage performances.
The Roches (Warner, 1979)
Nurds (Warner, 1980)
Keep On Doing (Warner, 1982)
Another World (Warner, 1985)
No Trespassing (Real Live Records, 1986)
Speak (MCA, 1989)
We Three Kings (MCA, 1990)
A Dove (MCA, 1992)
Will You Be My Friend? (
Baby Boom, 1994)
Can We Go Home Now (Rykodisc, 1995).
The Collected Works of the Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2003)
Moonswept (429 Records, 2007)
Rhino HiFive: The Roches (Rhino/Warner, 2007)
The Roches' MySpace page
Interview/performance on The Current
Interview with Robert Fripp about producing The Roches
Veljo Tormis (7 August 1930 in Kuusalu - 21 January 2017) was an Estonian composer.
He was called as one of the greatest living choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia.
Internationally, he is known from his extensive body of choral music, which passes 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella.
The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
The music of Veljo Tormis
Veljo Tormis Data Bank
Fennica Gehrman's Tormis page (publisher) with a list of publications
John Watkiss (28 July 1961 – 21 January 2017) was a British artist.
He was known for his painting and his work in comics and movie production.
His career led him from cover artist for graphic novels to storyboard artist and character designer.
He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Watkiss' comics illustration work includes DC Comics' The Sandman #39 (1992) and #53 (1993), Sandman Mystery Theatre #5–8 (1993), Starman #18 (1996), and all 13 issues of Deadman.
Dan Caspi (December 1, 1945 – January 22, 2017) was an Israeli lecturer, journalist and activist.
He worked at the Communication Studies Department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel.
Throughout his career, Caspi has combined research with public activity and lively commentary.
He published hundreds of articles in the printed daily and online press, including regular columns in a Jerusalem local paper, in the Israel Publishers’ Association monthly Otot ("Signals")' in Haayin Hashviit ("The Seventh Eye", an online media journal)' the op-ed section of ynet (an online newspaper produced by Yedioth Ahronoth) and a blog for Ha'aretz.
דן כספי, לשחרר את רוממה, ynet
http://blogs.haaretz.co.il/dancaspi/
İlhan Cavcav (October 4, 1935 – January 22, 2017) was a Turkish businessman.
He served as the chairman of Gençlerbirliği, a Football club in Turkey for almost 40 years until his death.
In November 2014 Cavcav announced that he would be fining bearded players, claiming that they were a bad influence for the youth.
Cavcav said that he would fine players that kept their beards  25,000 Turkish Liras and also attacked UEFA for not banning beards in all of its completions.
Cavcav was taken to hospital after falling and hitting his head, which caused a brain hemorrhage.
He was kept in intensive care unit.
One day later, on January 22, 2017, he was pronounced dead.
In 1978 Gençlerbirliği S.K. had no training facilities and now the team has one of the largest youth programs in Turkey and  of training facilities in Bestepe, Ankara (Beştepe İlhan Cavcav Tesisleri)
He is the longest serving professional football club chairman in Turkey (1978-2017).
Genclerbirliği Fans and Statistics site
Genclerbirligi Fans and Comment site
Chen Yu-mei (; 22 July 1966 – 22 January 2017) was a politician in the Republic of China.
She served as Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan from 18 September 2013 to 8 August 2014.
On 8 August 2014, Chen officially resigned to attend to other career plans.
She was succeeded by Hsin Shih-chang, a professor from National Taiwan Normal University.
Cristina Adela Foișor (7 June 1967, Petroșani – 22 January 2017, Timișoara), née Badulescu, was a Romanian chess player, an Mnternational Master and Woman Grandmaster.
She won the Women's Romanian Chess Championship five times.
She had competed for the world championship several times, most recently the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 when she went out in the first round in an Armageddon game.
In the season 2016/17 she played for Schachfreunde Deizisau in 2.
Andy Manuel Marte (October 21, 1983 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball third baseman.
He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians and Arizona Diamondbacks.
He also played in the KBO League for the KT Wiz.
He was born in Villa Tapia, Dominican Republic.
Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization
József Torgyán (16 November 1932 − 22 January 2017) was a Hungarian lawyer and politician.
He was chairman of the Independent Smallholders' Party.
He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Viktor Orbán from 1998 through 2001.
He was born in Mátészalka, Hungary.
Rövid életrajz
Választás.hu
Az 'Antalltól Orbánig' rövid bemutatása
Peter Overend Watts (13 May 1947 – 22 January 2017) was an English bass guitarist.
He was known for being the founding member and guitarist of 1970s rock band, Mott the Hoople.
His book "The Man Who Hated Walking" was published in 2013.
Yordano Ventura Hernández (; June 3, 1991 – January 22, 2017) was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher.
He played for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2013 through 2016.
He was twice named to the All-Star Futures Game.
He was born in Samaná, Dominican Republic.
Ventura made his MLB debut on September 17, 2013.
He was known as a power pitcher, his fastball was much valued by the Royals during his tenure with the team.
In 2014, Ventura's 96.2 mph average fastball velocity (96.4 for two-seamers) ranked second-best among MLB starters.
He helped the Royals win the 2015 World Series.
Jaki Liebezeit (May 26, 1938 – January 22, 2017) was a German drummer.
He was best known as a founding member of Can, who has been called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral".
He also played the piano and saxophone.
He was born in Dresden, Germany.
Park Ridge is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Park Ridge had a population of 8,645 as of the 2010 United States Census.
The mayor of Park Ridge is Terence P. Maguire.
The borough is a part of the Pascack Valley region of Bergen County.
It is bounded by the boroughs of Montvale, River Vale, Woodcliff Lake and Hillsdale.
The Hertz Corporation, a car rental company, had been headquartered in Park Ridge and was the borough's largest single taxpayer.
Sony Corporation of America has an R&D and engineering facility in Park Ridge.
ELF/Filecoder.
A is a ransomware Trojan that infects Unix systems.
There are different versions of the Trojan for several different flavors of Unix, including Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS.
Like other ransomware, it encrypts files on the system and demands payment for decryption.
The Trojan infected Linux servers using a flaw in the Magento eCommerce platform.
Additionally, hackers broke into the hosting site for the Transmission BitTorrent client and infected version 2.90 for MacOS.
The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India.
The Parliament is composed of the President of India and the houses.
It is bicameral with two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People).The Rajya Sabha is also known as the Upper house and the Lok Sabha is known as the lower house.
But this does not mean that Lok Sabha is less powerful than Rajya Sabha.
In fact,the Lok Sabha is much more powerful than the Rajya Sabha.
The Hollywood Sign (formerly the Hollywoodland Sign) is a landmark and American cultural icon located in Los Angeles, California.
It is near on Mount Lee, in the Hollywood Hills area of the Santa Monica Mountains.
The sign overlooks Hollywood, Los Angeles.
"HOLLYWOOD" is spelled out in -tall white capital letters and is 350 feet (106.7 m) long.
It was originally created in 1923 as an advertisement for a local real estate development, but it gained increasing recognition after the sign was left up.
The sign was a frequent target of pranks and vandalism, but it has since undergone restoration, including the installation of a security system to deter vandalism.
The sign is protected and promoted by The Trust For Public Land, a nonprofit organization, while its site and the surrounding land are part of Griffith Park.
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C.. It was dedicated to the 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson.
The neoclassical Memorial building on the Tidal Basin off the Washington Channel of the Potomac River was designed by the architect John Russell Pope.
Construction began in December 1938.
It was complete in 1939 with a ceremony attended by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
As a National Memorial it was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
The novel covers the time period from nineties of the last century to zero years of the present century.
We can see a wide panorama of life in Russia.
The life of an ordinary man in modern Russia describes in the novel.
At the same time The World According to Novikoff is a thriller novel which focuses on a plot to use nuclear materials by Islamic terrorists in Moscow.
The main character, Victor Novikoff is a painter.
He works in “The New literary newspaper” in Moscow; later he works as an editor in the Russian Agency "Interteleks", which is easily guessed "Interfax".
The last place of Victor Novikoff’ work is Trell publisher, which very similar to famous publishing Astrel, AST group from Moscow.
He works here as a literary editor and he receives a manuscript in which the plot of Islamic terrorist acts describes.
He must decide what to do with it.
From him it depends largely: whether this manuscript will be accepted for publication as a literary story.
The World According to Novikoff is a novel with a non-linear storyline.
The angle of view combines all four parts of this novel: two points of view — male and female — on the same vital conflict, moral problems, erotic transactions.
From an other side this novel is a mixt of thriller and fantasy.
At the cover of the book we can read: "All the characters of this book, including famous politicians, are a figment of the imagination of the author.
If you find some convergence with the Russian reality, then so much the worse for last".
“After reading the book The World According to Novikoff by Andrei Gusev, I'm quite certain that it simply must be done bedside book each President to know how not to do a history, how not to lead the country.
Kudos to Herostratus, destroyed one of the seven wonders of the world — the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, this is not the kind of Fame, to which we should aspire”. —
Irina Gorunova
Сто лет со дня рождения – the main part of the thriller novel The World According to Novikoff in Wikisource
Мир по Новикову (book's cover)
Moshe Gershuni (11 September 1936 – 22 January 2017) was an Israeli painter and sculptor.
He was known for his paintings in the 1980s which recognised The Holocaust.
In 2003, he was awarded the Israel Prize for his paintings.
However, Gershuni wanted to get the award without going to the event.
Because of this, his Israel Prize was not given to him.
A Special Administrative Region (SAR) is a region in China that has a high level of autonomy, or a lot of power to rule itself.
There are two SAR's in China, Hong Kong and Macau.
Unlike other regions in mainland China, SAR's have a Basic Law, a constitution that is different from that of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Basic Law allows Hong Kong and Macau to have freedoms that are not in the rest of China, like freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, and freedom to petition.
Basic Law also allows the SAR's to decide the economic rules of their region, which is why the economies are a lot less controlled in Hong Kong and Macau than in mainland China, as well as giving them the freedom to choose who to let into their own regions without needing a visa.
As a result, Hong Kong and Macau have their own currencies, passports, official languages, etc.
This is commonly known as the "one country, two systems" policy.
Chinese is an official language in both SAR's, but unlike mainland China where Mandarin is the main spoken language and simplified Chinese is the main written language, Cantonese is the most spoken language and traditional Chinese is the main written language in these areas.
The vagueness of simply stating Chinese as the official language allows this to happen.
Also, English and Portuguese, the main languages of the nations that controlled Hong Kong and Macau in the past in respective order, are also official languages in the respective SAR's.
After the British Empire defeated China in the Opium Wars, China was forced to give up Hong Kong to the British after signing unequal treaties that favored British interests.
They had to give up control of Hong Kong Island in 1842, Kowloon Peninsula in 1860, and were made to lease New Territories for a period of 99 years in 1898.
In the 1980s, when its lease of New Territories was nearly over, the United Kingdom sought to renew its lease of New Territories.
However, China refused to renew the lease.
Since New Territories had half of Hong Kong's people and most of its water supply, having Kowloon and Hong Kong Island without New Territories would have ruined Hong Kong's economy.
Reluctantly, Britain decided in 1984 to begin talks on giving Hong Kong back in 1984.
In 1988, China agreed to uphold Basic Law, which would make Hong Kong into an SAR when it gets returned to China, and in 1997, Hong Kong was returned to the PRC.
IN 1557, the Portuguese Empire made a permanent settlement on Macau, after being given permission from China to dock and trade there.
However, it took over Taipa in 1951 and Coloane in 1864, and in 1887, China was forced to sign a treaty to make Macau a permanent colony of Portugal.
However, after a military coup overthrew the Portuguese government in 1974, the new government made a promise to give back all the lands it took overseas.
In 1986, Portugal and China began talks on how to bring control of Macau back to China peacefully, and in 1999, Macau became an SAR in the PRC.
Regional status in China
As SAR's, China agrees that "commercial, social and legal life of Hong Kong/Macau will remain as it is" until after their first 50 years of being part of the PRC.
For Hong Kong, its uninterrupted status will last until 2047, and for Macau, it will last until 2049.
Afterwards, the PRC is allowed to rule over Hong Kong and Macau as it pleases.
Kasaragod District () is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India.
Kasaragod became part of Kannur district following the reorganisation of states and formation of Kerala in November 1, 1956.
Kasaragod was declared as a district on 24 May 1984.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, or Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, is also known as Kotte.
It is the official capital of Sri Lanka.
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is in the urban area of Colombo.
Haldenwang is a municipality in the district of Oberallgäu in Bavaria in Germany.
It is one the eastern side of the Iller valley.
The mayor has been Josef Wölfle (CSU) since 1 May 2014.
Deinocheirus ( ) is a genus of ornithomimid dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Mongolia.
In 1965, arms and shoulder girdles were found.
Dmytro Grabovskyy (, 30 September 1985 – 23 January 2017) was a Ukrainian-Israeli professional road bicycle racer.
He was born in Simferopol, Ukraine.
He last competed for UCI Continental team ISD-Lampre.
He was second in the time trial for juniors at the 2005 World Championship Cycling in Madrid and he won the road race.
He died from a heart attack on 23 January 2017, aged 31.
Profile of Dmytro Grabovskyy at Cycling Archives.com
Ukrainian cyclists
Gordon Fitzgerald Kaye, known professionally as Gorden Kaye (7 April 1941 – 23 January 2017) was a BAFTA-nominated English comic actor.
He was best known for playing René Artois in the British TV comedy series %27Allo %27Allo!.
He also was the roadie for Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias.
Kaye was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire.
When young, Kaye played rugby league for Moldgreen ARLFC before studying at King James's Grammar School, Almondbury, Huddersfield.
Kaye died under hospice care in England on 23 January 2017, aged 75.
Gorden Kaye at bfi.com
Ruth Culbertson Samuelson (November 4, 1959 – January 23, 2017) was an American Republican politician.
She was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, representing the 104th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2007 to 2015.
She announced on October 15, 2013, that she would not seek re-election for a fifth term and would leave office at the end of her current term, after the 2014 elections.
From 2000 to 2004, Samuelson served as a member of the Mecklenburg County Board of Commissioners, representing the Fifth District.
In 2004, she ran for an At-Large seat on the Board of Commissioners, but lost in a tight general election race.
Samuelson was born in Charleston, South Carolina.
She revealed in June 2016 that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
Samuelson died on January 23, 2017 under hospice care in Charlotte, North Carolina, aged 57.
On 22 July 2014, Another bill was re-introduced, forcing all Russian time zones to move an hour back, and Moscow Time is now on UTC+3.
However, the
Udmurtia and Samara Oblast remained on UTC+04:00, (thus reinstating Samara Time, MSK+1)
Kemerovo Oblast remained on UTC+07:00 (went from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk Time)
Zabaykalsky Krai moved back two hours to UTC+08:00 (went from Yakutsk to Irkutsk Time)
Magadan Oblast moved back two hours to UTC+10:00 (went from Magadan Time, MSK+8 to Vladivostok Time, MSK+7)
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai remained on UTC+12:00 (thus reinstating Kamchatka Time, MSK+9)
The parts of the Magadan Time zone that remained on MSK+8, were given a new time zone name, Srednekolymsk Time, UTC+11.
More time changes occurred in 2016.
On March 27, several times were changed:
Astrakhan and Ulyanovsk oblasts moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)
Altai Krai and Altai Republic moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
Zabaykalsky Krai moved forward one hour from UTC+08:00 to UTC+09:00 (from Irkutsk to Yakutsk time)
Sakhalin Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time), except Severo-Kurilsky District, which was already in UTC+11:00 (Srednekolymsk Time)
Magadan Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+10:00 to UTC+11:00 (from Vladivostok to Srednekolymsk time)
Novosibirsk Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+06:00 to UTC+07:00 (from Omsk to Krasnoyarsk time)
Saratov Oblast moved forward one hour from UTC+03:00 to UTC+04:00 (from Moscow to Samara time)
2000 television seasons
SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series.
The third season was on television from October 5, 2001 to October 11, 2004.
Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, stopped making the television series in order to make The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
The television series was meant to end after the movie was released.
Because the movie was so popular, the television series continued.
Samhain is the Gaelic celebration at the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter.
It is pronounced SOW-in.
This festival is also celebrated in Paganism and Wicca.
It is now known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve and celebrated on the 31st of October.
A common legend on Samhain is that it is easy to talk to the dead.
One way to do this is by using a Ouija board, a wooden board with numbers and letters on it.
Andrew Telegdi, PC (András Telegdi; May 28, 1946 – January 23, 2017) was a Hungarian-born Canadian politician.
He was a Liberal Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2008, representing Waterloo and the successor riding of Kitchener—Waterloo.
In 2014, Telgedi ran and lost in the 2014 Waterloo Regional Elections.
He came in third place to become one of two councillors for Waterloo on the Waterloo Regional Council.
He studied at the University of Waterloo in the 1970s.
Telegdi died on January 23, 2017 in Waterloo, Ontario, aged 70.
FAW Group Corporation is a Chinese Government-owned corporation automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Changchun, Jilin, China.
Its principal products are automobiles; buses; light, medium, and heavy-duty trucks; and auto parts.
FAW became China's first automobile manufacturer when it unveiled the nation's first domestically produced passenger car, the Hong Qi, in 1958.
Richard Marvin DeVos Sr. (
March 4, 1926 – September 6, 2018) was an American businessman.
He was known for being the co-founder of Amway along with Jay Van Andel (company restructured as Alticor in 2000), and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA basketball team.
In 2012, Forbes magazine listed him as the 60th richest person in the United States, and the 205th richest in the world, with an estimated net worth of $5.1 billion.
At one point, he was one of the 10 richest Americans.
DeVos was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
He studied at Calvin College.
He served in the military in World War II in the United States Army Air Corps.
He was married to Helen June Van Wesep from 1953 until her death in 2017.
His son, Dick DeVos, is married to Betsy DeVos the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education.
Profile at Forbes
Richard DeVos' campaign contributions  at Newsmeat
Excellence in Philanthropy, Updates on Past Winners 2001-2013: Richard and Helen DeVos
Miller, John J. Contesting Art.
Philanthropy Magazine.
Summer 2011.
The Cère  is a French river, in the Massif Central, that flows through the Cantal, Corrèze and Lot departments.
It is a left tributary of the Dordogne (river) and is the main river of the Cantal department.
The Cère river has a length of  and a drainage basin with an area of .
Its average yearly discharge (volume of water which passes through a section of the river per unit of time) is  at Biars-sur-Cère in the Lot department.
Average monthly discharge (m3/s) at Biars-sur-Cère
The source of the Cère river is in the southwestern Massif Central, in Col de Font de Cèrein the commune of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, at an altitude of about , in the Cantal department.
The Cère river flows to the west, in general, through 3 regions, 3 departments and 29 communes.
Several communes are named after the river: Vic-sur-Cère, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Laval-de-Cère, Gagnac-sur-Cère, Biars-sur-Cère.
Cantal department:  Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, Thiézac, Vic-sur-Cère, Polminhac, Arpajon-sur-Cère, Sansac-de-Marmiesse, Saint-Étienne-Cantalès, Laroquebrou
Corrèze department: Camps-Saint-Mathurin-Léobazel
Lot department: Laval-de-Cère, Bretenoux, Biars-sur-Cère, Prudhomat.
The main tributaries, over 20 km long,  of the Cère river are:
Roannes - 20.1 km
Escalmels - 24.7
Jordanne - 40.6 km
Authre - 42 km
The California National Party (CNP) is a political party in the state of California.
The party was founded in 2015.
It has been described by California legislative historian Alex Vassar as "the biggest-promising political party you haven't heard of".
It is currently chaired by Theo Slater.
The party's main goal is achieving California's independence from the United States of America.
Their platform also includes a wide range of proposed reforms.
This includes health care, schools and welfare.
Many of their proposals are generally left of center and reflect the party's "pragmatic progressive" ideology.
Politics of California
The Yes California Independence Campaign is an American political action committee.
It promotes the secession of the state of California from the United States via a referendum proposed for 2019.
The campaign president is Louis J. Marinelli.
He is a former New Yorker who lives in Russia He has received help from the Russian government to promote his efforts.
Marinelli was encouraged by the news of Brexit, the United Kingdom plan for leaving the European Union.
The group has been nicknamed "Calexit" for California exit.
The left-wing group was allowed to set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow under the name the “Embassy of the Independent Republic of California".
The Kremlin has been known for supporting secessionist movements in Europe and the United States.
President Obama announced in January 2012 that he would elevate the SBA into the Cabinet.
This is a position that last held during the Clinton administration.
The position was established in 1953 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
List of administrators
Vincent "Vinnie" Viola (born 1956 in New York City) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist.
Viola was the nominee for United States Secretary of the Army after being nominated by Donald Trump in December 2016.
He withdrew his name from consideration on February 3, 2017.
He is the former chairman of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), and the founder and chairman of Virtu Financial.
Viola is the owner of the Florida Panthers, a National Hockey League (NHL) ice hockey team.
Heather Ann Wilson (born December 30, 1960) is an American politician.
Wilson was the 24th United States Secretary of the Air Force from May 16, 2017 through May 31, 2019.
She served as President of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota.
She is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives representing  from 1998 to 2009.
She was the first female military veteran elected to a full term in Congress.
On January 23, 2017, President Donald Trump announced his intentions to nominate Wilson as Secretary of the Air Force.
The United States Senate confirmed her nomination on May 8, 2017.
Educators from New Mexico
The Mirage is a 3,044 room hotel and casino resort located on the strip in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The casino is owned by MGM Mirage.
The Mirage has a 20,000-gallon saltwater aquarium with over 450 species of fish.
It has an indoor tropical rainforest housed in its  tall atrium.
In front of the Mirage is a volcano that erupts nightly depending on the season.
Every hour there is a fire show.
The huge balls of fire are choreographed to music and light up the lagoon next to it.
Mirage website
Mirage Volcano Show in Las Vegas; YouTube
Marta Kubišová (1 November 1942 České Budějovice, then in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) is a Czech singer most popular in Czechoslovakia in 1960s.
She won Zlatý slavík TV award in 1967.
Marta Kubišová’s father was a cardiologist and her mother a housewife.
Her family moved to Poděbrady in 1952.
She married Jan Něměc, who later emigrated and they got divorced.
Her second husband was director Jan Moravec.
Her daughter Kateřina was born on 1 June 1979.
Her singing career started with a dance group in Nymburk.
She reached the finals in Hledáme nové talenty in 1961.
In 1963 she moved to Plzeň to perform.
In September 1964 she performed in theater Rokoko.
She won Silver Lyre of Bratislava with Helena Vondráčková in 1966.
She created the group 'Golden Kids' with Václav Neckář and Vondráčková in 1967.
Her song Prayer for Marta became a symbol of national resistance against the occupation of Warsaw Pact troops in 1968.
During the Prague Spring, she recorded over 200 SP records and one LP (Songy a Balady), which was immediately banned from stores.
The government unjustly banned her from performing in February 1970.
She signed the Charter 77 and she became their speaker.
She suffered a miscarriage and survived clinical death.
Marta was also an actress and she met her husband Jan Němec while filming.
In 1990s and 2000s she also took part in concerts to promote human rights.
She was awarded the Honorary Medal of T. G. Masaryk in 1998 and in October 2002 she got the St. Wenceslas Honours.
The Ouija (pronounced wee-jee or wee-jah) is a game board supposedly used to talk to the dead.
It is designed to be a fun activity based on self-deception.
They are also called "spirit boards" or "talking boards.
It is a flat board with the numbers 0-9 and all the letters of the alphabet.
It has the words "yes" and "no" at the top with the word "goodbye" on the bottom.
The board uses a planchette, which is a small wooden plank in the shape of an upside down heart.
It has a glass circle (or plain hole) in the top.
The player asks a question.
Then one or more players guide the planchette to the letters or numbers to spell out a message.
However, Scientists know the game is based on the ideomotor effect.
A participant believes they are not controlling the message, that it comes from ghosts or spirits.
It can seem very mysterious.
But anyone can test a Ouija board by blindfolding or hiding the board from the ones moving the planchette.
What usually results is gibberish and no message.
| Brain Games; National Geographic
The Truth About Ouija Boards / How to make your own!:YouTube
How Ouija Boards Work; HowStuffWorks
Plomb du Cantal is a French mountain, the highest summit of Mounts of Cantal in the Massif Central, France.
It is part of the Regional Natural Park of the Volcanoes of Auvergne ().
It is the highest mountain of the Cantal department and the second highest in the Massif Central, after Puy de Sancy that is  high.
Plomb du Cantal is in the Mounts of Cantal, a chain of volcanic mountains in the Massif Central, in the centre of the Cantal department.
It is at about  to the northeast of Aurillac, the capital of the Cantal department.
The summit is on the border between the communes of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats to the west and Albepierre-Bredons to the east.
to the west, on the side of Saint-Jacques-des-Blats, is the drainage basin of the Cère river that flows to the Dordogne river;
to the south, on the side of the commune of Brezons, is the drainage basin of the Brezons river that flows to the Garonne river; and
to the northeast, on the side of Albepierre-Bredons, is the drainage basin of the Alagnon river that flows to the Loire river.
The Plomb du Cantal, with other near mountains, is part of the stratovolcano of Cantal, the largest French stratovolcano and one of the most important of Europe with an area of almost .
It had, 4 millions of years ago, an elevation of  or higher.
There are two main ski stations (places where people go to practice skiing) on the slopes of Plomb du Cantal or near it: Le Lioran, also known as Super Lioran, and Prat-de-Bouc.
By cable car to the Lioran station followed by hiking during about 10 minutes;
Hiking to the Lioran station and then to the mountain during about 1 hour and a half; and
Hiking from the Prat-de-Bouc parking lot during about 2 hours.
Plomb du Cantal et Puy du Rocher par le col de Prat de Bouc - Altituderando
Plomb du Cantal - peakery
Le Lioran
Xin Zhui (213 BC-163 BC) also known as Lady Dai or the Diva Mummy is a 2,100-year-old mummy from the Western Han Dynasty.
To date, she is the best preserved ancient human ever found.
She was the wife of Li Cang, the marquis of Dai.
She had gained fame more than 2,000 years after her death.
This was when her tomb was discovered inside a hill in Hunan, China.
She and her jewels are located at the Hunan Provincial Museum.
In 1971, her mummified body was found.
All her organs and blood vessels were still seen.
They found out that she had Type A blood.
Her skin was still elastic.
Her joints could still be moved.
She still had her eyelashes and hair in her nostrils.
Lady Dai was overweight.
She suffered from diabetes.
She also had high blood pressure, clogged arteries and her heart was badly damaged.
Xin died from a heart attack because of poor health conditions at the time.
She also suffered internal parasites and had gallstones logged in her gall bladder.
She had also suffered a lot of pain from a fused spinal disc.
The 2,000 Year-Old Mummified Body of Lady Xin Zhui, Hunan Museum, Changsha, China; YouTube
A table (landform) is a high rock structure with a flat top.
There are many different terms for this landform feature.
The tuya is a structure formed by a subglacial (under ice) volcano.
Lava erupts underneath an overlying glacier or ice sheet.
It melts through to the surface and pools, producing the flat plateau on top with near-vertical walls along the ice-contact margin as the lava cools and hardens.
A similar landform is the tepui, which has a rather different origin.
A body of hard rock resists erosion.
It was originally inside a body of softer rock such as limestone, which got eroded away to form a plain.
The more resistant rock is left behind as an isolated mountain.
The term is used for the table-top mountains of South America.
Auyán-tepui in the Guiana Highlands, Venezuela is the source of the Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world.
It is 19 times higher than Niagara Falls.
Tepui
Potrero
Table hill
Table-topped hill
Table mountain
Meierijstad (literally Bailiwick City) is a municipality in North Brabant, a province in Netherlands.
It is the largest municipality in the province and in the eastern part.
Meierijstad is established in 2017.
Two municipalities, Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel, joined to become Meierijstad.
Biggest settlement is the town of Veghel, also containing the town hall.
However, council meetings are held at Dommelrode Castle in Sint-Oedenrode.
2017 establishments in the Netherlands
Chandannagar is a municipal corporation in the state of West Bengal, India.
It was formerly spelled Chandranagore.
It  was a former French colony along with present Puducherry, Union territory.
It is a part of the Kolkata Metropolitan Area.
Chandannagar is located on the banks of the Hooghly River.
The total population of the city is 166,867 according to the 2011 Census of India.
Chandannagar was a French territory until India gained its  independence from France in 1949.
In 1954 it came under the jurisdiction of West Bengal.
Abenaki, or Abnaki, is an endangered Algonquian language of Quebec and the northern states of New England.
The language has Eastern and Western forms.
They differ in vocabulary and phonology.
They are sometimes considered distinct languages.
Eastern Abenaki languages were spoken by several peoples, including the Micmac, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot of coastal Maine.
The last known fluent speaker of Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot) died during the 1990s.
However, several Penobscot elders still speak Penobscot.
There is an ongoing effort to preserve it and teach it in the local schools.
Only a handful of Western Abenaki speakers remain today.
A stencil is a blocking material used to mask a surface.
In it there are holes for ink or paint to pass through.
That way an image is made on the material behind the stencil.
Stencils are used when many copies are needed of the same image.
It is used in street art, and many public notices.
Screen printing is a printing technique using a fine mesh.
Ink is applied except in areas blocked by a stencil.
Virender Sehwag is a former Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian National Cricket Team.
He was renowned as a destructive and aggressive player.
He holds numerous records in international and Indian cricket.
He is a right arm batsman and right arm off-spin bowler.
Sehwag was the first Indian batsman to score Triple century in Test cricket.
He scored 319 off 278 balls against South Africa in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium.
It is the fastest triple century since then.
He holds the massive Indian record of scoring the fastest 300,250,200 and 150 in Test cricket.
Sehwag is the only personality of any nationality to be honoured as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World twice.
In phonetics (the study of sounds in human speech), the place of articulation of a sound is where in the mouth the sound is made (articulated).
There are at least 13 different places of articulation.
They are split into four big types.
Labial (lips)
Bilabial (two lips)
The bilabial sounds in English are [], [], and [].
Labiodental (lip and teeth)
The labiodental sounds in English are [] and [].
Linguolabial (lip and tongue)
Coronal (tip of the tongue)
Coronal sounds are made with the tip of the tongue.
Dental (teeth and tongue)
Dental sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the back of the teeth.
The dental sounds in English are [] and [].
Alveolar (gum ridge and tongue)
Alveolar sounds are made by the tip of the tongue touching the ridge behind the teeth.
The alveolar sounds in English are [], [], [], [], [], and [].
Retroflex (roof of the mouth and tongue)
Retroflex sounds are made by pressing the tongue flat against the front part of roof of the mouth.
There are no retroflex sounds in English.