the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
However, exercising thrift may be good for an individual by enabling that individual to save for a "rainy day", and yet not be good for the economy as a whole.
There is little agreement as to how important this is in a modern economy.
Modern economies are huge, and much affected by other national economies.
The Mora was William the Conqueror's flagship for his invasion of England in 1066.
It served as his personal ship between England and Normandy afterwards.
It was the largest and fastest ship in his invasion fleet.
The Mora was a gift to William by his wife Matilda of Flanders.
The Mora was built at Barfleur in Normandy.
It was a gift from Matilda of Flanders to her husband  Duke William of Normandy.
It was completed in the summer of 1066.
Mora was a larger ship that could carry ten to twelve knights with their attendants, weapons and armor.
It would also have a crew to sail it.
The captain of the ship was Stephen, the son of Airard.
Stephen was the captain of the Mora for over twenty years.
Orderic Vitalis described the ship: "it had for its figurehead the image of a child, gilt, pointing with its right hand towards England, and having in its mouth a trumpet of ivory.
Mora carried multicolored sails and at the top of the mainmast was the papal banner (Pope's flag), consecrated and sent to William from Rome.<ref>G.H. Preble, 'The "Mora", A.D. 1066', The New York Times, June 3, 1883</ref> The banner was described as "a square white banner charged with a gold cross within a blue border."
Before sunset on September 27th, according to William of Poitiers, Duke William's invasion fleet left for England.
The Mora led the fleet.
Mora carried a lantern on her mast so she could be seen in the dark.
A horn also let the other ships know where the Mora was.
The Mora was much faster than the other ships.
By dawn William found himself in mid-channel, alone, with no other ships in sight.
While he waited his servants served him breakfast with wine.
Once the others were in sight the fleet proceeded to Pevensey in Sussex.
According to Elisabeth van Houts, the meaning of the name is not known although there have been several suggestions.
It might be named for the Morini, ancient inhabitants of Flanders.
This is where Matilda was from.
The Latin word mora has several meanings, none of which seem likely.
These range from 'delay' or 'pause' to 'foolish' or 'foolish woman'.
Also is the possibility that Mora was an anagram of Amor''.
In mathematics, a function space is a set of functions of a given kind from a set X to a set Y. For example:
In set theory, the set of functions from X to Y may be written X → Y or YX.
The Besov space is one of the Banach spaces.
It can be used for solving partial differential equations.
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo 3DS game console.
It is the fifth game in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series.
It was released on Nintendo's eShop service on May 9, 2013 in Europe and North America, and July 24, 2013 in Japan.
In the main game, the player has to place blocks on a grid with the goal of making a path for a Mini (a small walking robot that looks like Mario or another character in the Mario series) to get from a warp pipe to the goal.
The player has to avoid obstacles like Shy Guys and spikes.
Each level has three colored coins that the player can collect.
Collecting all three coins gives the player a star token.
Star tokens can be used to unlock more gameplay modes, levels, and toys.
There are more than 180 levels in four modes of gameplay.
There are also four minigames that can be unlocked.
The game has a level creation mode where the player can create their own levels using pieces from the game.
They can also control how often tiles fall.
Created levels can be saved and shared using StreetPass after the player is able to complete the level that they have created.
The levels can also be shared through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, where players can download levels created by other players.
Official website (North America)
Offical website (Europe)
John Winthrop (1588–1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Winthrop was born in Edwardstone, Suffolk.
He was an English lawyer from a rich landowning family.
He led a large group of Puritans from England in 1630.
Winthrop served as governor to the newly formed Massachusetts Bay Colony and held that position for twelve years.
He was one of the chief founders of New England.
He saw the colony as a Puritan "City upon a hill" and a model to western Christianity.
References or Sources
John Winthrop (1588-1649), American Literature Sites, Washington State University
Jacques Cloutier (born January 3, 1960 in Noranda, Quebec) is a Canadian retired ice hockey goaltender.
He currently works as the associate coach for the Calgary Flames.
He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres with the 55th overall pick in the 1979 NHL Entry draft.
He played 144 games with Sabres and 136 games with their AHL affiliate, Rochester Americans.
After his time with Sabres, he played 2 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and 58 games with the Quebec Nordiques.
He retired from playing professional ice hockey in 1994.
Bluefish is a kind of fish which occurs in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
It is a pelagic fish, which means that it lives near the surface of the ocean.
They can grow to a size of  and reach a weight of .
In the wild, they live to be about nine years old.
Bluefish are predators: they hunt other fish, in small groups.
Bluefish are caught commercially, and there is a problem with overfishing.
Economic liberalization is a theory about applying the ideas of classical liberalism to the government of a state: In very broad terms, it is about removing as much state control as possible from the economy.
The state that follows this path often allows privately owned companies to do some things that governments usually do.
The state can introduce competition in an economic sector while still controlling a publicly held company.
This is the case with many railway systems, for example in France
The state can privatize a publicly held company, and guarantee a monopoly on the services it offers: This has been the case with the ocmpany responsible for transporting electricity in France, called Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (RTE).
It is a subsidiary of Électricité de France (EDF).
Spitalfields is an area in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
It is near Brick Lane.
Many immigrants went to live there in the past.
A Barcode reader or Barcode scanner is an electronic input device which is able to scan and decode barcodes.
These devices use optical technology such as infrared light.
Some readers use an integrated decoder, others have one unit for reading the barcode, and another one to decode the barcode.
A barcode reader, also called a price scanner or point-of-sale ( POS ) scanner, is a hand-held or stationary input device used to capture and read information contained in a bar code .
A barcode reader consists of a scanner , a decoder (either built-in or external), and a cable used to connect the reader with a computer.
Because a barcode reader merely captures and translates the barcode into numbers and/or letters, the data must be sent to a computer so that a software application can make sense of the data.
Barcode scanners can be connected to a computer through a serial port , keyboard port , or an interface device called a wedge .
A barcode reader works by directing a beam of light across the bar code and measuring the amount of light that is reflected back.
The dark bars on a barcode reflect less light than the white spaces between them.
The barcode scanner then converts the reflected light energy into electrical energy, which is converted into data by the decoder and forwarded to a computer.
A pen wand is the simplest barcode reader.
It contains no moving parts and is known for its durability and low cost.
A pen wand can present a challenge to the user, however, because it has to remain in direct contact with the bar code, must be held at a certain angle, and has to be moved over the bar code at a certain speed.
A slot scanner remains stationary and the item with the bar code on it is pulled by hand through the slot.
Slot scanners are typically used to scan bar codes on identification cards.
A CCD scanner has a better read-range than the pen wand and is often used in retail sales.
Typically, a CCD scanner has a "gun" type interface and has to be held no more than one inch from the bar code.
Each time the bar code is scanned, several readings are taken to reduce the possibility of errors.
A disadvantage of the CCD scanner is that it cannot read a bar code that is wider than its input face.
An image scanner, also called a camera reader, uses a small video camera to capture an image of the bar code and then uses sophisticated digital image processing techniques to decode the bar code.
It can read a bar code from about 3 to 9 inches away and generally costs less than a laser scanner.
A laser scanner, either hand-held or stationary, does not have to be close to the bar code in order to do its job.
It uses a system of mirrors and lenses to allow the scanner to read the bar code regardless of orientation, and can easily read a bar code up to 24 inches away.
To reduce the possibility of errors, a laser scanning may perform up to 500 scans per second.
Specialized long-range laser scanners are capable of reading a bar code up to 30 feet away.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT) is a combination bridge and tunnel in the U.S. state of Virginia.
It crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
It connects the Delmarva Peninsula's eastern shore with Virginia Beach and the metropolitan area of Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Diddy Kong Racing is a racing video game for the Nintendo 64 game console.
It was developed and published by Rareware.
It is the first spin-off of the Donkey Kong Country series.
It was released on November 14, 1997 in North America, and on November 21, 1997 in Japan and Europe.
Diddy Kong Racing has gameplay that is similar to Mario Kart 64.
It has an adventure mode with several worlds that have several race tracks, a battle stage, and a race against a boss.
Players can choose to use a car, a hovercraft, or a plane, although some tracks make the player use one of those.
Each track has boosters that make the player go faster, and balloons that give the player an item that they can use during the race.
Players can choose from 10 characters.
Two of the game's characters, Conker and Banjo, would later star in their own games.
Conker went on to star in Conker's Bad Fur Day, while Banjo went on to star in Banjo-Kazooie.
A remake for the Nintendo DS called Diddy Kong Racing DS was released on February 5, 2007 in North America and on April 20, 2007 in Europe.
It has better graphics and use of the console's touch screen.
Banjo and Conker do not appear in it.
Krunch
Bumper the Badger
Conker
Tiptup the Turtle
Timber the Tiger
Pipsy
Drumstick the Rooster (Unlockable)
T.T. (Unlockable)
Taj the Genie (Playable in DS remake)
Wizpig (Playable in DS remake): Main antagonist
Tricky the Triceratops (Dino Domain Boss)
Bluey the Walrus (Snowflake Mountain Boss)
Bubbler the Octopus (Sherbet Island Boss)
Smokey the Dragon (Dragon Forest Boss)
Non-Playable Characters
Wizpig
Tricky the Triceratops
Bluey the Walrus
Bubbler the Octopus
Smokey the Dragon
Official Diddy Kong Racing site (Archive)
Polly Scattergood (born 18 October 1986, Colchester, Essex, England), is a British singer-songwriter.
She went to the BRIT School.
Her first album, Polly Scattergood, was released by Mute Records in 2009.
Her second album Arrows was released in October 2013.
It took three and a half years to make.
The first single from Arrows, "Wanderlust", was released in April 2013.
On January 21 2014 the video for "Subsequently Lost" was posted on Vimeo.
She has remixed "Reunion" by M83 and "You Will Find A Way" by Maps.
The London School for Performing Arts & Technology, more commonly known as The BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology, is a school in Croydon, London, England.
It opened in 1991.
It is the only free performing arts school in the United Kingdom.
OFSTED rated it as 'outstanding'.
Notable past students
The Kooks are a English rock band.
They formed in Brighton in 2002.
In July 2005 they released their first single, "Eddie's Gun".
They are signed to Virgin Records.
Inside In/Inside Out (2006)
Konk (2008)
Junk of the Heart (2011)
Assia Ahhatt (; born 3 June 1965) is a Ukrainian musician.
She plays the violin.
She has been a nominee and a winner of many international competitions in Italy and France.
She has recorded several songs in which singing and violin were of equal importance.
Ahhatt was born in Kiev, in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
She started to take violin classes at the age of five.
She graduated from the National Music Academy in Kiev.
She then studied at the Music Academy in Nice, France.
She regularly performed in concert halls in Germany, France, Italy and other European countries.
She was the soloist of the Ukrainian National Philharmonic.
In 1999, she released her debut album Homo Novus, featuring modern instrumental music.
In 2000 a nationwide promo tour of Homo Novus took place.
Same year, Assia Ahhatt signed a contract with EMI records (Poland).
Later Assia signed a contract with Universal Poland, and recorded a song Where are you now?
with Polish-born Hollywood actor Bogusław Linda.
Linda also starred in the video for the above-mentioned song, which instantly became a hit in several European countries.
Assia began her career as a singer in 2002.
The same year, Assia Ahhatt was signed to a record label, Universal Ukrainian Records.
She released an album Tebe, Anais (; For You, Anais).
In 2003, she released an album Shokolad (; Chocolate), which includes songs in Russian, Polish and French.
Her next album was titled Dysha Bolela (; Soul Hurt), and was released in 2005.
Same year she founded a group "69", and became it’s producer co-songwriter.
Assia released the albums Goryachiy pocelui (; Hot Kiss) and I Like It in 2006.
In 2007, she released Ya lychshaya (; I Am The Best).
After this, she took a three-year break from her musical career.
She did this to focus on her newly born son, Philip.
In 2010, Assia released an album Angeli ne kuryat (, Angels Don’t Smoke).
In 2011, Assia made some changes in her music career by introducing modern violin music, as her main creative direction.
She performed with musicians such as Kurt Elling and trumpet player Chris Botti, and  award-winning music composer Eric Serra.
Assia Ahhatt records in the leading studios in Europe and the West Lake Studio in Los Angeles, USA.
Studios was recorded her debut U.S. single “If only tonight" (2013) that instantly became a hit in America and headed several U.S. Charts:
Billboard’s Hot Single Chart (#6 in Billboard’s 2014 - Singles Chart);
DRT National Airplay Top 50 Independent Chart;
DRT National Airplay Top 50 R&B/ Hip Hop Chart; and
Indie Label Report-Rhythmic.
After the remarkable success of  “If Only Tonight” Assia brought her attention to the Latin market.
The next Ahhat’s single, ‘Fiesta in San Juan’, which was recorded ft.
Puerto Rican rapper, Wisin, is a dynamic dance composition, infused with the sounds of the wonderful violin solo.
‘Fiesta in San Juan’ was again in Billboard’s Latin Tropical Chart, and its remix rapidly approaches Top 10 in Billboard’s National Dance Club Chart.
1999 — “Homo Novus”.
2002 — “For You, Anais”.
2003 — “Chocolate”.
2005 — “Soul Hurt”.
2006 — “Hot Kiss” with band “69”
2006 — “I like it…”
2007 — “I Am The Best!”
2010 — “Angels Don’t Smoke” with band “69”
2010 - “In-Laws New Year Eve”
Although the microscope was invented early in the 17th century, it was not much used until Robert Hooke improved the instrument.
Then Marcello Malpighi, Hooke, Nehemiah Grew and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek had a virtually untried tool in their hands as they began their investigations.
Working on frogs and extrapolating to humans, Malpighi demonstrated the structure of the lungs, previously thought to be a homogeneous mass of flesh, and he offered an explanation for how air and blood mixed in the lungs.
Malpighi also used the microscope for his studies of the skin, kidneys, and liver.
For example, after he dissected the body of a black man, Malpighi made some groundbreaking headway into the origin of black skin.
He found that the black pigment was associated with a layer of mucus just beneath the skin.
He was the first to see capillaries in animals, and he discovered the link between arteries and veins.
He may have been the first person to see this under a microscope.
The microscope let Malpighi discover that the silk worm does not use lungs to breathe, but small holes in their skin called spiracles.
This turned out to be true of all insects.
Because Malpighi had a wide knowledge of both plants and animals, and he made contributions to the study of both.
The Royal Society in London published two volumes of his botanical and zoological works in 1675 and 1679.
Another edition followed in 1687, and a supplementary volume in 1697.
In his autobiography, Malpighi speaks of his Anatome Plantarum, decorated with the engravings of Robert White (1645–1703) as "the most elegant format in the whole literate world".
M83 is a French electronic music band.
The band is named after a spiral galaxy.
Their seventh album is the soundtrack to the science fiction movie Oblivion.
An artisan is a skilled worker who makes things with his or her hands.
The things artisans make can be either for use or for decoration.
Some of the things they make are furniture, sculpture, clothing, jewellery, household items, and tools.
Sometimes artisans make things by hand that are usually made by machine today.
The hand-made items can be called "artisanal".
Some of those items are food products, including bread, beverages or cheese.
Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch (3 March 1895 – 31 January 1973) was an Norwegian economist.
He won the first Nobel Prize in Economics with Jan Tinbergen in 1969.
Frisch was born on 3 March 1895 in Christiania, Norway.
He studied at the University of Oslo.
Frisch was married to Marie Smedal from 1920 until her death in 1952.
Then he was remarried to Astrid Johannessen from 1953 until his death in 1973.
Frisch had one daughter with Smedal.
Autobiography at Nobel e-Museum
Ragnar Frisch at nobel-winners.com
Norwegian economists
Jan Tinbergen (April 12, 1903 – June 9, 1994) was a Dutch economist.
He won the first Nobel Prize in Economics with Ragnar Frisch.
Tinbergen was born on April 12, 1903 at The Hague.
He studied at Leiden University.
He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969.
He shared the award with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of  economic processes.
Tinbergen was a founding trustee of Economists for Peace and Security.
Tinbergen's debate
Tinbergen’s econometric picture lead to a debate between other several known economists such as J.M. Keynes, Ragnar Frisch and Milton Friedman.
The debate is sometimes called the Tinbergen debate.
Tinbergen was never married.
He also had no children.
He died on June 9, 1994 at The Hague from natural causes, aged 91.
Niko Tinbergen is his brother.
Business Cycles in the United States, 1919–1932, Geneva, 1939 and New York, 1968
Business Cycles in the United Kingdom, 1870–1914, Amsterdam, 1951
On the Theory of Economic Policy.
Second edition (1952) is Volume 1 of Contributions to Economic Analysis, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
Centralization and Decentralization in Economic Policy, Amsterdam, 1954 .
Economic Policy: Principles and Design, Amsterdam, 1956
The Element of Space in Development Planning (together with L.B.M. Mennes and J.G. Waardenburg), Amsterdam, 1969
The Dynamics of Business Cycles: A Study in Economic Fluctuations.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1974. .
Der Dialog Nord-Süd: Informationen zur Entwicklungspolitik.
Frankfurt am Main: Europ.
Verlagsanstalt, 1977.
Economic policy: Principles and Design.
Amsterdam, 1978. .
TINBERGEN, Jan in: Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbeweging in Nederland
Jan Tinbergen College (Dutch website)
Profile at The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Writers from The Hague
Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was a British economist.
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1984.
Stone was born on 30 August 1913 in London, England.
He studied at the Cambridge University.
In 1984, Stone received the Nobel Prize in Economics.
He won the Nobel Prize for developing an accounting model that could be used to track economic activities on a national and, later, an international scale.
Stone was married to Winifred Mary Jenkins from 1936 until they divorced in 1940.
Then he was married to Feodora Leontinoff from 1941 until her death in 1956.
Then he was married to Giovanna Croft-Murray Saffi from 1960 until his death in 1991.
Stone had one daughter, Caroline Stone.
Richard Stone and Giovanna Saffi Stone, Social Accounting and Economic Models (1959)
Richard Stone and Giovanna Saffi Stone, National Income and Expenditure (1961)
Nobel prize page
Harry Max Markowitz (born August 24, 1927) is an American economist of Jewish descent.
He received the 1989 John von Neumann Theory Prize and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Economics.
Markowitz was born on August 24, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois.
Markowitz is a professor of finance at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
He is best known for his pioneering work in Modern Portfolio Theory, studying the effects of asset risk, return, correlation and diversification on probable investment portfolio returns.
An Hour with Harry Markowitz: Interviewed by Mark Hebner
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1990
Autobiography, The Nobel Prizes 1990, Editor Tore Frängsmyr, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1991
Banquet Speech, December 10, 1990
Nobel Prize Lecture: Foundations of Portfolio Theory, December 7, 1990 ( PDF format )
Birinus († 650), also St. Birinus was a missionary to Wessex and the first Bishop of Dorchester.
His feast day is celebrated on December 3rd.
Birinus may have been a Lombard by birth.
He was sent by Pope Honorius I to help convert pagans in Anglo-Saxon England.
The pope first sent him to Genoa.
Archbishop Asterius of Milan consecrated Birinus as a bishop.
Birinus arrived in southern Britain .
He had planned to go to the midlands of England to preach there.
But when he found the Gewisse in Wessex were completely pagan, he decided to stay with them.
He began to convert the Gewisse (West Saxons) to Christianity.
In 635 King Cynegils of Wessex was baptized by Birinus and King Oswald of Northumbria agreed to be his Godfather.
In  Birinus founded a church at Winchester which later became Winchester Cathedral.
Birinus died in 650.
He was buried at Dorchester.
Relics of St. Birinus
After 660 there were no more West Saxon Bishops at Dorchester.
Along with part of Berkshire it was taken over by Mercia.
The new see for Wessex was now at Winchester.
Some time around 690–700 Bishop Hedda of Winchester had the relics (bones) of St. Birinus moved from Dorchester to Winchester.
Up to this time Bishop Birinus had been considered a minor saint.
In 1223 monks of Dorchester abbey located the tomb of a former Bishop.
The body was dressed in the garments and tunic of a bishop so they believed it was St. Birinus.
At the time of the discovery miracles were claimed.
One claim was that a dumb child could suddenly speak English and French.
The monks sent their findings to Rome.
The pope wrote to Stephen Langton, the Archbishop of Canterbury asking him to manage the translation.
But a problem caused the ceremony to be delayed.
Archbishop Langton discovered the body had already been moved to Winchester .
Both Dorchester and Winchester claimed to have the relics of Bishop Birinus.
For that reason two feast days were observed for him, December 3rd and 4th.
The Catholic Church recognizes December 3rd.
A shrine was created for him in the 14th century.
It was later destroyed, but it has been rebuilt since.
650s deaths
Mechi (), is one of the fourteen zones of Nepal and one of the four zones of Eastern Development Region.
It is the easternmost zone of Nepal, with its headquarters at Ilam.
It is the smallest zone of the Eastern Development Region with an area of  and a population of only 1,422,182 people living there; Its population density is 173.5 persons/km2.
The most important river in the Mechi Zone is the Mechi, tributary of the Mahananda River.
Another river is the Tamar River.
In the northern part of the zone, mainly in the Taplejung district that is in the eastern Himalayas, there are several high mountains.
The highest is Kanchenjunga () that, with  high, is the third highest mountain of the world; it is on the border with Sikkim and in the Kanchanjungha Conservation Area.
Main VDCs and municipalities
Map of Nepal: Taplejung District
Kellita Smith (born January 15, 1969) is an American actress, voice talent and comedian.
Jeremy Steven Suarez (born July 6, 1990) is an American actor.
He was born in Burbank, California.
Camille Simoine Winbush (born February 9, 1990) is an American actor, voice talent and comedian.
She was born in Culver City, California.
She is perhaps best known for acting in The Bernie Mac Show.
Dee Dee Davis (born April 17, 1996) is an American actor, voice talent and comedienne.
The Bernie Mac Show is an American comedy, drama and family television series.
It is rated PG.
It aired from 2001 to 2006.
Bernie Mac as Bernie McCullough
Kellita Smith as Wanda McCullough
Camille Winbush as Vanessa Thomkins
Jeremy Suarez as Jordan Thomkins
Dee Dee Davis as Bryana Thomkins
Naya Rivera as donna (11 episodes)
Meagen Fay as  Joan Lefko (8 episodes)
Chelsea Handler as Doris Flynt (1 episode)
Rebecca Corry as Marianne (1 episode)
Emilia Groth as Brittney (1 episode)
Ice Cube (1 episode)
Matt Damon (1 episode)
Don Rickles (1 episode)
Chris Rock (1 episode)
Ellen DeGeneres (1 episode)
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-bernie-mac-show/
Keegan-Michael Key (born March 22, 1971) is an American actor and comedian.
He and Jordan Peele have a comedy show on MADtv.
Jordan Peele (born February 21, 1979) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer and writer.
Peele directed and wrote the 2017 horror movie Get Out, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Peele was born on February 21, 1979, in New York City and raised by a single mother on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
He graduated from the Calhoun School and attended Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York.
He dropped out of college after two years to pursue comedy.
Peele joined the cast of the sketch comedy show Mad TV in 2003.
He became friends with fellow cast member Keegan Michael-Key.
The two became a comedy duo, and later co-starred in their own sketch show, Key & Peele.
As Filmmaker
MADtv bio
Robert "Bobby" Lee, Jr. (born September 17, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, singer, dancer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his work on MADtv.
Official MADtv Website
Donkey Kong Jr. is an arcade video game made by Nintendo in 1982.
It is the sequel to Donkey Kong.
The game was ported to many home video game consoles, including the NES, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, and ColecoVision.
It was released for the Wii's Virtual Console in 2006.
It was later released for the Nintendo 3DS from the Nintendo eShop service in 2012.
Donkey Kong Jr. (also called Junior or DK Jr.) has to rescue his father Donkey Kong from Mario.
The player has to go through four stages; each of which have a different theme.
To move through the stage, DK Jr. can climb vines/chains/ropes.
He can go down faster by holding only one vine, or go up faster by holding two of them.
He has to avoid enemies that are in each stage.
To complete the first three stages, DK Jr. has to reach the key at the top.
In the fourth stage, he has to push six keys into locks near the top of the stage.
After the player completes all four stages, the game goes back to the first stage and is more difficult.
Donkey Kong Junior at the Killer List of Videogames
Donkey Kong Barrel Blast, known as Donkey Kong Jet Race in Europe and Australia and as Donkey Kong Barrel Jet Race in Japan, is a racing video game for the Wii game console.
It was released in Japan on June 28, 2007, in North America on October 8, 2007, in Europe on January 25, 2008, and in Australia on February 7, 2008.
It was originally going to be released on the Nintendo GameCube and was going to use the DK Bongos, but was moved to the Wii.
Donkey Kong Barrel Blast is a racing game where the player controls their character with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk.
To move their character, the player has to shake the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, lift them at the same time to jump, and use the controller's motion sensor to beat their opponents and use items.
The main mode of play is a Grand Prix like the one seen in the Mario Kart series.
There is also a Time Trial mode where players can race on one track without opponents.
Official webite
Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast  at Nintendo
Jan Swammerdam (12 February 1637 – 17 February 1680) was a Dutch biologist and microscopist.
His work on insects showed that the stages an insect life – egg, larva, pupa, and adult – are different forms of the same animal.
He did experiments on muscle contraction.
In 1658, he was the first to observe and describe red blood cells.
He was one of the first people to use the microscope in dissections, and his techniques remained useful for hundreds of years.
Research on insects
Knowledge of insects in the 17th century was to a great extent inherited from Aristotle.
Swammerdam dissected insects and studied them under microscopes.
Swammerdam showed that insects develop in the same gradual manner as do other animals.
He wanted to dispel the seventeenth-century idea that different life stages of an insect (e.g. caterpillar and butterfly) were different individuals.
He got evidence from his dissections.
By examining larvae, he identified adult features in pre-adult animals.
For example, he noticed that the wings of dragonflies and mayflies exist before their final molt.
Swammerdam used these observations in his 1669 publication, Historia Insectorum Generalis (The Natural History of Insects).
This work included many descriptions of insect anatomy.
It was here that Swammerdam revealed that the "king" bee has ovaries.
Biblia natura published posthumously in 1737, carried the first confirmation that the queen bee is the sole mother of the colony.
Despite five intense years of beekeeping, the mode of honey bee reproduction escaped him as he wrote, "I do not believe the male bees actually copulate with the females."
Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game made by Midway Manufacturing (now Midway Games).
It was released one year after Pac-Man, on January 13, 1982.
It became one of the most popular video games of all-time after its release.
This led Namco to make the game an official title in the Pac-Man series.
It has a female character, new mazes, and changes in gameplay from Pac-Man.
It is most successful American-made arcade game, selling 115,000 arcade cabinets.
Ms. Pac-Man plays similarly to Pac-Man.
The player has to move Ms. Pac-Man, a yellow disc, around a maze.
The goal is to eat all of the yellow pellets (circles) while not getting caught by the ghosts.
The player can get more points by eating fruits that appear.
When Ms. Pac-Man eats a white pellet, the ghosts turn blue.
The player can eat them for points.
The game has 256 stages.
Like Pac-Man, the 256th level cannot be finished because of a problem with the creation of the game.
The game has gameplay changes from the original Pac-Man.
The game has four different mazes instead of one maze that is played for the whole game.
Three of the four mazes have two sets of warp tunnels instead of one.
Instead of staying in the middle of the maze, the fruit moves around the maze, going in and out of warp tunnels.
The ghosts have different behaviors.
The game has different sound effects and music.
Ms. Pac-Man at the Killer List of Videogames
Ms. Pac-Man at the Arcade History database
M61 Vulcan is a hydraulic and pneumatic rotary cannon.
It has six barrels.
It is cooled by air and fires by the power of electricity.
It is a Gatling-style rotary cannon.
The size of its caliber is 20 mm.
It fires at an very very high speed.
It has been the main cannon armament of United States military fixed-wing aircraft for over fifty years.
It was made by General Electric at first, but today it is made by General Dynamics.
The First Presbyterian Church is a historic church in Trenton, New Jersey, United States.
It is located at 120 East State Street.
The church building was built in 1726.
During the American Revolutionary War the British occupied Trenton.
They used the church as a stable to keep their horses.
It was repaired when they left.
In 1804 the old stone church was taken down.
A new church of all brick was completed in 1805.
The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The church graveyard is the burial place of at least two Revolutionary War notables.
Colonel Johann Rall, Commander of the Hessians forces defeated by General George Washington.
He died just after the Battle of Trenton.
John Rosbrugh, was killed at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek (Second Battle of Trenton).
He was the first U.S. chaplain killed in battle.
The inventor of the steamboat, John Fitch, was a member of the congregation at First Presbyterian.
The Feather River is a river in Northern California in the United States.
It is a tributary of the Sacramento River.
The river originates in the Sierra Nevada mountains and is  long, flowing in a general southward direction.
The river is an important source of drinking and irrigation water for California.
Oroville Dam is located on the river, near the city of Oroville.
Middle Fork Feather River
North Fork Feather River
The American River is a river in northern California in the United States.
The river starts in the Sierra Nevada and flows west through the city of Sacramento.
The river is  long with a watershed of .
North Fork American River
Middle Fork American River
South Fork American River
Rev. John Rosbrugh (c. 1714–1777) (also spelled Rosborough and Rosburgh) was a graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
He was ordained a Presbyterian minister.
In 1776 he organized and commanded the 3rd Northampton County, Pennsylvania militia.
He then then accepted a commission as company chaplain.
He was killed at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek, also known as the Second Battle of Trenton.
Rosbrugh was the first U.S. chaplain ever killed in battle.
John Rosbrugh was born  in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
He immigrated to the United States along with his older brother, William.
The family was originally from Craigie, County Ayrshire, Scotland.
His ancestors went to Ireland during the settling of the Ulster Plantation.
In 1733 his young wife Sarah died in childbirth along with their only child.
He was a tradesman but well enough educated to prepare himself for college.
He attended the College of New Jersey where he graduated in 1761.
He was licensed to preach in August of 1763.
In October 1764 he was sent to the congregations of Greenwich, Oxford, and Mansfield Woodhouse, all in western New Jersey.
In December 1764 he became a Presbyterian minister.
By 1765, he was asked to serve neighboring congregations in Upper and Lower Hardwick in Warren County, New Jersey.
In 1766, Rev. Rosbrugh married Jane Ralston.
She was the daughter of James Ralston of East Allen Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
It was then called 'the Irish Settlement.'
In 1769 Rev. Rosbrugh was called to serve at the church at Allen Township.
This was the same congregation his wife was from.
He became their permanent minister.
For seven years, he led his congregation in Allen township.
Revolutionary war
At the start of the American Revolutionary War, news was often read to congregations in their churches.
It was one of the main forms of communication at the time.
On December 10, 1776, General George Washington called out the militia of Pennsylvania.
He wrote to the colonels of the militias of Northampton and Bucks counties asking them and their men to join him as quickly as possible.
Rev. Rosebrugh read General Washington's letter to his congregation.
The men of the congregation formed a company of militia and agreed to go to war if Rev. Rosbrugh would lead them.
He had expected to accompany them as their chaplain but reluctantly agreed to lead them.
John Rosbrugh took his place at the head of the company and slinging his musket over his shoulder led the company to join General Washington and the Continental Army in Philadelphia.
While in Philadelphia, Rev. Rosbrugh was given a commission as a Chaplain.
Captain John Hays took his place as company commander.
A chaplain at that time held the rank of major and pay of thirty-three and a half dollars per month.
Presbyterian ministers, however, were particularly hated by the British and if captured suffered cruel treatment.
Rev. Rosbrugh’s company joined the rest of the Northampton county militia in camp.
Rosbrugh also met with his brother-in-law, John Ralston, a member of the Second Continental Congress.
The 3rd Battalion was under the command of General Israel Putnam.
He had orders to cross the Delaware on the 25th of December in support of Washington’s surprise attack on Trenton.
However General Putnam decided not to cross due to weather conditions.
So Rev. Rosbrugh’s battalion remained in Philadelphia.
After General Washington crossed back to Pennsylvania he decided to take Trenton a second time.
This time the 3rd Northampton militia was included.
The battle was called  the second battle of Trenton or the battle of Assinpink creek.
On the afternoon of January 2nd the Americans were preparing their positions for the upcoming battle.
Rev. John Rosbrugh was dining at a public house when a  warning was shouted that Hessians were coming.
Going outside he found his horse had been taken.
He tried to get back to the American lines which were on the other side of Assunpink Creek.
But he was suddenly confronted by a company of Hessians under the command of a British officer.
He surrendered but they recognized him as a Presbyterian minister.
The Hessians bayoneted him to death.
They took his watch and money then left his body naked in the snow.
Captain Hays, the company commander, recovered the body and quickly buried him where he fell.
The next morning Rev. George Duffield, a brother Presbyterian chaplain moved Rev. Rosbrugh's body to the nearby graveyard of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.
It is believed he still rests there today.
His widow, Jane (née Ralston) survived him by 32 years.
She was buried in the East Allen Township cemetery, the inscription on her tombstone indicating her husband John is buried beside her.
About 1766, John Rosbrugh married secondly, Jane Ralston (1739–1809).
She was the daughter of James Ralston of the Irish Settlement or Allen Township, PA.
John and Jane had five children:
James Rosbrugh - (1767–1850) – Judge, NY State legislator, Captain of militia in the War of 1812, he resided at Groveland, NY
Letitia Rosbrugh - (1769–1859) – Married Samuel Ralston, they lived in Allen Township, PA.
Mary Rosbrugh  –  Married Robert Ralston, her cousin, a member of the Continental Congress.
Sarah Rosbrugh –  Never married, moved to Western New York.
Died at age seventy-six.
John Rosbrugh – (–aft.
1880), he never married and remained a resident of Allen township, PA.
Rev. John Rosbrugh Marker
Ten Crucial Days
The Grand Coulee Dam is a dam on the Columbia River in the United States state of Washington.
The dam forms Lake Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The dam was built between 1933 and 1942, with a new power plant added between 1997 and 1974.
The dam is operated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
Grand Coulee Dam is  high and  long.
The lake behind it can hold more than  of water.
The dam provides water for agriculture in Central Washington.
Water is pumped from Lake Roosevelt to Banks Lake, located in the Grand Coulee.
From there it runs by gravity to irrigate about  of fertile farmland.
Incorporated in the late 1940s and early 1950s, this scheme is known as the Columbia Basin Project.
Grand Coulee also produces hydroelectricity.
In fact, it is the largest electric-power producing facility in the United States.
At full load the dam can produce 6,809 megawatts or enough for 5 million typical American households.
The dam was an important source of power for factories during World War II.
Today, it provides much of the cheap electric power for the Pacific Northwest.
As a consequence of the dam's construction, the reservoir flooded large tracts of Native American lands.
Salmon can no longer migrate to the upper Columbia River system.
Columbia Basin Project  – Bureau of Reclamation
Grand Coulee Dam – Northwest Power and Conservation Council
He joined the Los Angeles Kings in 1968 but first played a season in the AHL for the Cleveland Barons.
He played 2 seasons with the Kings and joined the Chicago Black Hawks where he played for 3 years.
After his time with the Black Hawks was over, he went and played for the New York Islanders for 2 seasons and the Buffalo Sabres for 4 years.
He retired from playing professional ice hockey in 1978.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
He won four Pulitzer Prizes throughout the 1920s and one even after his death in 1957.
O'Neill was born on October 16, 1888 in a hotel room in New York City, New York.
He studied at Princeton University and at Harvard University.
O'Neill's parents were immigrants from Ireland.
O'Neill's best-known stage works include, Anna Christie (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, 1922), Desire Under the Elms (1924), Strange Interlude (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, 1928), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness! (
O'Neill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.
He won four Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his works on stage.
O'Neill was married to Kathleen Jenkins from 1909 until they divorced in 1911.
Then, he was married to Agnes Boulton from 1918 until they divorced in 1929.
A granddaughter from this marriage is the actress Geraldine Chaplin.
After this divorce, he was married to Carlotta Monterey from 1929 until his death in 1953.
O'Neill was an Agnostic.
O'Neill died on November 27, 1953 at a hotel room in Boston, Massachusetts from cerebellar cortical atrophy, a neurological disease.
As he was dying, he whispered his last words: "I knew it.
Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room."
Eugene O'Neill official website
Casa Genotta official website
Eugene O'Neill | PlaybillVault.com
Eugene O'Neil Autobiography  at the Nobel Foundation
Works by Eugene O'Neill at Project Gutenberg Australia
American Experience - Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film on PBS
All Is Lost is a 2013 American survival-adventure movie directed by J. C. Chandor.
It only stars Robert Redford as a lost man at sea.
The movie has almost no dialogue.
It was released to positive reviews on October 18, 2013.
127 Hours is a 2010 American biographical drama movie directed by Danny Boyle.
It stars James Franco as real-life canyoneer Aron Ralston, who became trapped by a boulder in Blue John Canyon, southeastern Utah, in April 2003.
It received positive reviews, especially from Roger Ebert, Richard Roeper, and Peter Travers.
It was released on November 12, 2010.
Movies set in Utah
Rush is an American-British 2013 biographical-drama movie written and directed by Ron Howard.
It is based on the true events about racecar drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
It stars Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, and Olivia Wilde.
It was released to positive reviews on September 20, 2013.
2010s American biographical movies
The Simpsons: Road Rage is a 2001 action-adventure video game based on the animated television show The Simpsons.
It was released for the Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, Playstation 2 and Game Boy Advance.
It is similar to the game Crazy Taxi, in that the player has to pick up people and drive them to where they want to go as fast as they can.
Cut the Rope is a puzzle video game released by ZeptoLab.
In it, the player must cut a series of ropes with their finger to feed a small creature named Om Nom a piece of candy.
Once you have fed him the candy, the next level is unlocked.
The game has been downloaded over 100 million times.
The spin off games have also being released: Cut the Rope: Holiday Gift (2010), Cut the Rope: Experiments (2011), Cut the Rope: Time Travel (2013) Cut the Rope 2 (2013) and My Om Nom (2014 for Apple App Store and 2015 for Google Play Store).
In each level, the candy hangs by one or several of the titular ropes which the player must cut with a swipe of their finger using the device's touchscreen.
Using various objects such as floating bubbles and bellows, the candy must also be manipulated around obstacles to get to Om Nom's mouth.
Each level pack introduces new challenges.
Levels are scored with a zero to three star rating, Like Angry Birds.
according to how many stars the player picked up, and a point score depending on the number of stars collected and the amount of time taken to complete the level.
In-app purchases, such as "Superpowers" and "Hints", and "Magnets" make play easier.
Cut the Rope on the publisher's website
Cut The Rope Online
The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause, was the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989 and January 1990.
This operation was done during the administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and ten years after the Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
By this treaty, it was accepted that the United States should give up control of the Panama Canal to Panama by 1 January 2000.
During the invasion, the Panamanian leader, general and dictator Manuel Noriega was removed from his position and the elected president Guillermo Endara took control of the office.
The Panamanian Defense Force was dissolved.
The St. Jude Storm also known as Cyclone Christian, was a severe European windstorm that hit Northwestern Europe from 27 October 2013 to 28 October 2013.
The storm caused 17 deaths.
Winds of up to 80–90 mph (130–145 km/h) were forecast for southern England, but the highest windspeed was in Denmark, where a gust of 120.8 mph (194.4 km/h) was recorded in the south of the country on the afternoon of 28 October, the strongest wind recorded in the country's history.
Damage occurred in Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, and United Kingdom.
October 2013 events
A relative atomic mass (also called atomic weight; symbol: Ar) is a measure of how heavy atoms are.
It is the ratio of the average mass per atom of an element from a given sample to 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom.
In other words, a relative atomic mass tells you the number of times an average atom of an element from a given sample is heavier than one-twelfth of an atom of carbon-12.
The word relative in relative atomic mass refers to this scaling relative to carbon-12.
Relative atomic mass values are ratios; relative atomic mass is a dimensionless quantity.
Relative atomic mass is the same as atomic weight, which is the older term.
For example, the element thallium has two common isotopes: thallium-203 and thallium-205.
Both isotopes of thallium have 81 protons, but thallium-205 has 124 neutrons, 2 more than thallium-203, which has 122.
Each isotope has its own mass, called its isotopic mass.
A relative isotopic mass is the mass of an isotope relative to 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom.
The relative isotopic mass of an isotope is roughly the same as its mass number, which is the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
Like relative atomic mass values, relative isotopic mass values are ratios with no units.
We can find the relative atomic mass of a sample of an element by working out the abundance-weighted mean of the relative isotopic masses.
For example, if a sample of thallium is made up of 30% thallium-203 and 70% thallium-205,
Two samples of an element that consists of more than one isotope, collected from two widely spaced sources on Earth, are expected to have slightly different relative atomic masses.
This is because the proportions of each isotope are slightly different at different locations.