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A Serious Man (with Focus Features, StudioCanal, Working Title Films and Mike Zoss Productions)
Love Happens (with Universal Pictures)
Zombieland (with Columbia Pictures and Pariah Productions)
Couples Retreat (with Universal Pictures and Wild West Picture Show)
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (with Universal Pictures)
Nine (with The Weinstein Company)
Brothers (with Lionsgate Films)
It's Complicated (with Universal Pictures and Waverly Films)
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (
with Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment)
The Spy Next Door (with Lions Gate Films)
Dear John (with Screen Gems)
The Wolfman (with Universal Pictures)
Green Zone (with Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films)
MacGruber (with Rogue Pictures)
The Bounty Hunter (with Columbia Pictures and Original Film)
Repo Men (with Universal Pictures)
Nanny McPhee Returns (with Universal Pictures, Working Title movies and StudioCanal)
Robin Hood (with Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Scott Free Productions)
Get Him to the Greek (with Universal Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment and Apatow Productions)
Grown Ups (with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
Salt (with Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Original Film and DiBonaventura Productions)Films
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (with Universal Pictures and Big Talk Films)
Charlie St. Cloud (with Universal Pictures)
The Social Network (with Columbia Pictures)
The Fighter (with Paramount Pictures; US distribution only)
Little Fockers (with Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures)
Sanctum (with Universal Pictures and Wayfare Entertainment)
Paul (with Universal Pictures, Working Title Films and Big Talk Films)
Battle: Los Angeles (with Columbia Pictures and Original movie)
Hop (with Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment)
Bridesmaids (with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
Cowboys & Aliens (with Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Imagine Entertainment, DiBonaventura Productions and Platinum Studios)
The Change-Up (with Universal Pictures and Original Film)
Tower Heist (with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment)
Johnny English Reborn (with Universal Pictures, StudioCanal and Working Title Films)
Anonymous (with Columbia Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment)
21 and Over
Contraband (co-production with Universal Pictures and Working Title Films)
21 Jump Street (co-production with Columbia Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Original Film)
Wanderlust (co-production with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
Safe House (co-production with Universal Pictures)
American Reunion (co-production with Universal Pictures)
The Five-Year Engagement (co-production with Universal Pictures and Apatow Productions)
That's My Boy (co-production with Columbia Pictures and Happy Madison Productions)
Savages (co-production with Universal Pictures)
The Bourne Legacy (co-production with Universal Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company)
Text to speech (TTS) is the use of software to create an audio output in the form of a spoken voice.
The program that is used by programs to change text on the page to an audio output of the spoken voice is normally a text to speech engine.
TTS engines are needed for an audio output of machine translation results.
Intelligent Speaker: browser extension
Text To Speech  Online Text To Speech Multilanguage .
Physics-based voice synthesis, at University of Brasilia.
Google text to speech downloader
Aristarchus (310 BC – about 230 BC), was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician.
His is the first known model that put the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it (see Solar system).
Aristarchus was influenced by Philolaus of Croton, but he identified the "central fire" with the Sun, and put the other planets in their correct order of distance around the Sun.
His astronomical ideas were often rejected in favour of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy.
His name is Ἀρίσταρχος in Greek letters, which transliterates to Aristarchos.
He was born on the island of Samos, in the eastern Aegean Sea.
Heliocentrism is the idea of the Sun at the centre.
Though the original text has been lost, a reference in Archimedes' book The Sand Reckoner describes another work by Aristarchus in which he advanced the heliocentric model as an alternative hypothesis.
Archimedes wrote:
So Aristarchus believed the stars were very far away, which is an important step.
Therefore, there was no observable parallax, that is, a movement of the stars relative to each other while the Earth moves around the Sun.
The stars are much farther away than was generally assumed in ancient times; and the tiny amount of stellar parallax is only detectable with telescopes.
The old geocentric model explained planetary parallax, and was assumed to be the reason why no stellar parallax was observed.
Rejection of the heliocentric view was common, as the following passage from Plutarch suggests (On the apparent face in the orb of the Moon):
The Vatican library has preserved two ancient manuscripts with estimates of the length of the year.
The only ancient scientist listed for two different values is Aristarchus.
Both are close to the values later used by Hipparchus and Ptolemy, and the precession indicated is almost precisely 1 degree per century, a value which is too low.
1 degree per century precession was used by all later astronomers until  the Arabs.
The correct value in Aristarchus's time was about 1.38 degrees per century.
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First estimate of the Moon's distance and First estimate of the Sun's distance from educational website   From Stargazers to Starships
Gomez, A. G. (2011)  Aristarchos of Samos the Polymath [online], http://www.jscimath.org/uploads/J2011173AG.pdf
Heath, T. L. (1913) Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus: A history of Greek astronomy to Aristarchus together with Aristarchus' treatise on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon, a new Greek text with translation and notes, Oxford, Clarendon Press (PDF).
Online Galleries, History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries High resolution images of works by Aristarchus of Samos in .jpg and .tiff format.
310 BC births
The Abergavenny fireworks display is an annual organized fireworks display.
It is held each year on Guy Fawkes Night (November 5) in Abergavenny, Wales.
The event takes place in Belgrave Park.
It has been running each year since about 1968.
The event is run and organized by the local social networking group Abergavenny and District Round Table, which is one of the hundreds of branches in the UK of the Round Table (club).
It is a non profit event with all proceeds being distributed to charity’s and good courses, primarily in and around the Abergavenny area.
Some of the those to have benefited from monies raised from the Abergavenny fireworks display include:  Abergavenny Scouts, Crickhowell Scouts, Jigsaw community project, Llanbedr Village Thai Boxing, Mardy Juniors Football, RTB Ebbw Vale Junior AFC Club, a fuller list is on the Abergavenny and District web site.
Poster competition
A competition is held with the help of the local schools to design a poster for the Abergavenny fireworks display.
The posters are used as part of the advertising of the event.
The 2011 winners were unveiled on the front page on the Abergavenny Chronicle.
With the winners and their class mates receiving child entrance tickets to the fireworks display, and the school receiving a donation.
Abergavenny fireworks website
Abergavenny and District Round Table website
Leszek Melchior Drogosz (January 6, 1933 – September 7, 2012) was a Polish boxer and actor.
He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
The Saigon River () is a river in Vietnam.
It begins at Lake Dau Tieng (in its water-catchment area) near the country of Cambodia.
The river flows south and south-southeast for about .
Most of the rivers in the Mekong Delta region have a water-table and canal connection.
The system of rivers and canals for southern Vietnam help with water transport for commercial activities.
The water supplies many businesses and agricultural (farm) operations.
The Saigon River has a river port at Ho Chi Minh City.
It ends just after the Phu My Bridge ().
The Saigon River ends by meeting another two rivers, the Nha Be and Dong Nai rivers.
The lower end of the river is on the flood plain, and is therefore subject to tide change from the sea and delta.
Ho Chi Minh City regularly floods (in  areas that get a lot of floods) with either tidewater or rainwater.
The river system has many fish.
Recently the government released native fish to improve the population.
Fish, shrimp, and snails are popular for farming.
Avemetatarsalia (meaning "bird toes") is a clade name established in 1999 for all crown group archosaurs that are closer to birds than to crocodiles.
An alternate name is Panaves, or "all birds", meaning all animals, living or extinct, which are more closely related to birds than to crocodiles.
Members of this group are basically the dinosaurs (including birds), the pterosaurs, and some earlier animals which are a bit difficult to place.
They are one wing of the Archosaurs, the other being the Crurotarsi.
Bird-line archosaurs appear in the fossil record early in the Middle Triassic about 245 million years ago (mya), with the dinosaur-like Asilisaurus.
However, Lower Triassic fossil footprints reported in 2010 from Poland may belong to a still more primitive type.
If so, the origin of avemetatarsalians would be pushed back to around 249 mya.
The oldest Polish footprints were made by an unknown small quadrupedal animal, but slightly later footprints show that moderately large bipedal dinosauromorphs had appeared by 246 mya.
The Permian-Triassic extinction event is dated at about 250 mya.
The TriassicJurassic junction is about 200 mya.
The age of the footprints suggests that the rise of the dinosaurs was slow and drawn out across much of the Triassic.
Crurotarsi: The crocodile line of crown-group Archosauria
Sphyrna is one of the two genera in the Hammerhead shark group, and is the largest genera out of the two, with eight members in it.
The word Sphyrna is a Greek word meaning "hammer", which refers to the shape of the shark's head.
Members in the Sphyrna group measure in size from the Scoophead,  which is 100 centimeters (1 meter) long, to the Great hammerhead shark, which is 610 centimeters (6.1 meters) long.
The Smalleye Hammerhead Shark weighs around 9 kg, and the Great hammerhead shark weighs about 230 kg.
Members of this group are usually light grey or brownish grey in colour with a tint of green, and have a white belly.
Members of the Sphyrna group's favourite type of food are stingrays.
But they also eat crustaceans like blue crabs and shrimp, molluscs like octopuses and squids, many types of fish like sardines and herrings, and other types of sharks.
When they can not find food they start eating each other, but the Great hammerhead shark is known to eat its own young.
Members of this group are mainly viviparous, but in 2007, a bonnethead was found to be capable of asexual reproduction.
They give birth to around 12-40 young at a time.
Once they are born, young ones come together in groups, and swim towards warmer waters.
They then stay together in groups until they are older and big enough to live on their own.
They live for around 20–30 years.
Species of Sphyrna
Golden Hammerhead
is the capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan.
Mito City website
Michael Tolan (born Seymour Tuchow; November 27, 1925 – January 31, 2011) was an American movie, stage, and television actor.
His first role was in The Enforcer.
He appeared in Fort Worth, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Presumed Innocent, and Decoy.
Tolan was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 27, 1925.
He was educated at Wayne State University and at Staford University.
He was married to Carol Hume until they divorced.
He was married to Rosemary Forsyth from 1966 until they divorced in 1975.
He was partners with Donna Peck until his death.
He had two children with Hume and one with Forsyth.
He died on January 31, 2011 in Hudson, New York from kidney failure.
is a Japanese city in Tochigi Prefecture on the island of Honshu It is the capital city of the prefecture.
Utsunomiya City website
Settlements in Tochigi Prefecture
Frances Bay (Frances Goffman January 23, 1919 – September 15, 2011) was a Canadian movie, television, and stage actress who started her career when she was 50 and is known for her role as Grandma Gilmore in Happy Gilmore.
She was born in Mannville, Alberta, Canada on January 23, 1919.
Her father was a Ukrainian Jewish immigrant.
She was raised in Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada.
She was married to Charles Bay from 1946 until his death in 2002.
They had a son Eli Joshua Bay who died before them.
Bay was in a car crash and had a leg amputated in 2002, after her husband's death.
He was born in New York City, New York on January 13, 1910.
He was married to Margie Hines from 1939 to 1942.
Then to Virginia Mercer until his death in 1984, he had no children.
Biography --"He Am What He Am!--Jack Mercer, the Voice of Popeye" by Fred M. Grandinetti
1939 publicity photo of Mercer and Hines announcing their marriage
Margie Hines (Margret Hines October 1, 1909 – 1985) was an American movie, stage, voice, and television actress.
She is known for her voice role as Olive Oyl in Popeye and as Betty Boop.
She was born in New York City, New York on October 1, 1909.
She was married to Jack Mercer from 1939 until they divorced in 1942.
The administration center of the government of Tokyo Prefecture is in Shinjuku.
Also in Shinjuku is the biggest railway station in the world, Shinjuku Station.
http://www.city.shinjuku.tokyo.jp/foreign/english/ ;
Mae Questel (Mae Kwestel September 13, 1908 – January 4, 1998) was an American movie, television, stage, and voice actress who is known for her voice role as Betty Boop.
And as Aunt Bethany in the Comedy/Slapstick show National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
She was born in New York City, New York and was educated at Columbia University.
She was married to Leo Balkin from 1930 until they divorced.
Then she married Jack E. Shelby from 1970 until his death.
She had 2 children.
She died in Manhattan, New York City, from Alzheimer's disease, she was 89 years old.
is a Japanese city in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture.
The Shinto shrine of Nikkō Tōshō-gū was completed in 1617.
It is the burial place of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Nikkō City website  in English
Methyl benzoate is an organic compound.
It has the chemical formula C6H5CO2CH3.
It is a colorless liquid that is poorly soluble in water, but miscible with organic solvents.
Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (8 November 1848 – 26 July 1925) was a German mathematician and philosopher.
Today, he is remembered for the work he did in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics.
He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on the philosophy of language and mathematics.
When he published his works, they were mostly ignored by others of his time.
Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932) and Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) introduced his work to later generations of logicians and philosophers.
An overview of Frege's writings  including  English translations, at the university of Berkeley.
The Quad Cities is a group of five cities along the Mississippi River in the states of Iowa and Illinois.
The five cities are Davenport, Iowa, Bettendorf, Iowa, Moline, Illinois, East Moline, Illinois, and Rock Island, Illinois.
The largest of these cities is Davenport.
Nearly 400,000 people live in the area.
The name "Quad Cities"
The name "Quad Cities" can be confusing because "quad" means four.
People began calling the area the Quad Cities in the 1960s, before Bettendorf was large enough to be considered a "city".
By the time Bettendorf was large enough, people were so used to the name "Quad Cities" that they decided to keep it. (
Even earlier, the area had been called the "Tri-Cities", before East Moline became large enough to be considered a city.)
The manufacturing, or making, of goods is a big part of the economy in the Quad Cities.
Military equipment, such as weapons and armor, are made at the Rock Island Arsenal.
John Deere & Company, which makes farm equipment, is in Moline.
Park Jae-Sang (Hangul: 박재상; born December 31, 1977) is a South Korean rapper.
He is mainly known by his stage name, Psy (Hangul: 싸이).
His 2012 single "Gangnam Style" was a surprise viral hit.
Before its popularity he was little known outside South Korea.
Psy performed "Gangnam Style" on the American show Saturday Night Live.
The Night Riviera is a sleeper train operated by First Great Western.
It is one of only two sleeper trains on the railway in Great Britain (the other being the Caledonian Sleeper).
It runs two trains per night, six days a week (Sun-Fri) between London Paddington and Penzance, with one train departing in each direction.
John Nolan (born May 22, 1938) is a British movie and television actor who is known for his role as a Wayne Enterprises board member Douglas Fredericks in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises.
He was born in London, England and is married to Kim Hartman since 1975.
He is the uncle to Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan.
Mark Boone Junior (born Mark Heidrich March 17, 1956) is an American television and movie actor.
He is known for his roles in Memento and in Batman Begins as Detective Flass.
He played Bobby Munson in Sons of Anarchy.
Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor.
He is known for his roles in King of the Gypsies and Paul's Case.
He is also known for playing a Gotham Gangster Salvator Maroni in The Dark Knight.
He was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and one Academy Award.
Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.
His parents, Betty Lou (née Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces.
They later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia off of Juniper Street in Midtown.
Roberts' mother filed for divorce in 1971 and it was finalized early in 1972.
His younger siblings, Julia Roberts (from whom he was estranged until 2004) and Lisa Roberts Gillan, are also actors.
His mother married Michael Motes and had daughter Nancy Motes in 1976.
Roberts is of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and Swedish ancestry.
Roberts was raised in Atlanta, Georgia.
He studied at Henry W. Grady High School.
He was sued two times, one for drug related problems and the other for slamming his wife into a wall.
He is a vegan and supporter of animal rights.
Roberts is currently married to Eliza Garret since 1992; they have a son and a daughter.
He also has a daughter from an earlier relationship with Kelly Cunningham, Emma Roberts.
He is the brother of Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan.
Lisa Roberts Gillan (born Lisa Roberts; January 1, 1965) is an American actress.
She is the sister of actors Eric Roberts and Julia Roberts, and the aunt of actress Emma Roberts.
Her mother, Betty Lou Motes (nee Bredemus), was a one-time church secretary and real estate agent, and her father, Walter Grady Roberts, was a vacuum cleaner salesman.
Roberts's parents, one-time actors and playwrights, met while performing theatrical productions for the armed forces and later co-founded the Atlanta Actors and Writers Workshop in Atlanta, Georgia off Juniper Street in Midtown; the two divorced in 1971.
Her mother later married Michael Motes and had a daughter, named Nancy Motes, who was born in 1976.
Roberts's father died of cancer when she was ten.
People from Decatur, Georgia
Charles Cyphers (born July 28, 1939) is an American movie, television, and stage actor who is known for his role as Sheriff Leigh Brackett in Halloween (1978) and Halloween Kills (2021).
He was born Niagara Falls, New York on July 28, 1939.
His career started in the 1970s.
Bradford Claude Thomas Dourif (; born March 18, 1950) is an American character actor.
He was nominated for an Oscar, and won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for his supporting role as Billy Bibbit in the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
He is also known for his roles as Charles Lee Ray and the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play franchise (1988–2017), and Gríma Wormtongue in The Lord of the Rings series (2002–2003).
Dourif's other film roles include Wise Blood (1979), Dune (1984), Blue Velvet (1986), Mississippi Burning (1988), The Exorcist III (1990) and Alien Resurrection (1997).
He also appeared in many television series, notably Deadwood (2004–2006, 2019), for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Guillermo del Toro (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican movie director, screenwriter, author, and producer who is known for directing Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army and The Shape of Water.
He known for his fiction or fantasy movies.
He is also known for his monster movies.
He won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award, Satellite Award and an Academy Award in 2018.
He was born on October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
He was married to Lorenza Newton from 1986 until they divorced in 2017 and they have two children.
He lives in Agoura Hills, California.
He has won a British Academy Film Award and a Saturn Award.
Crain Communications Building, formerly known as Smurfit-Stone Building and Stone Container Building, is a small skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois constructed in 1983 and finished in 1984.
The building is 582 feet (177 meters) and 41 stories tall.
It is well known for the diamond shape upon the top of the building.
The diamond shaped facade is also known to occasionally sport worded slogans at night, such as "GO BEARS" or "GO CUBS."
The design of the south east corner of the building features a prominent vertical slit from the ground, through the diamond shaped facade, and to the top of the building.
It is because of this that some theorize the building was deliberately designed this way (resembling a woman's vulva) to antithesize the often "male-featured" inspiration behind most skyscrapers.
This, however, was later debunked by the architect to be a mere coincidence.
The building has appeared in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011).
The James R. Thompson Center is a dome shaped building that is about 93 meters to the top of the building.
It is a building of house offices of the state of Illinois.
The center was named after Governor James R. Thompson in 1993.
It opened in 1985.
It is located in Chicago, Illinois.
Commerce, Culture, & State Offices Under Glass
New York Times Travel Guide Chicago James R. Thompson Center
Emporis.com page
Google Maps page
The Richard J. Daley Center or The Daley Center is a civic center in the city of Chicago, Illinois.
The center is named after Mayor Richard J. Daley.
The building is 648 feet (198 meters) 30 store building.
The Daley Center was opened in 1965.
The center has a sculpture, Chicago Picasso made by Pablo Picasso.
City of Chicago
Richard J. Daley Center on Emporis
Daley Plaza Eternal Flame
Richard Hamilton (December 31, 1920 – December 21, 2004) was an American movie, television, and stage actor who is known for his role as Agent D in Men in Black (1997).
Hamilton was born on December 31, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois.
He was married to Marilyn Morgan Hamilton until his death in 2004.
Hamilton died on December 21, 2004 in New York City, New York from natural causes, he was 83 years old.
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (February 6, 1914 – May 22, 2005) was an American movie, television, stage, and voice actor, and singer who is known for his voice roles as Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster Movie Series and as Tony the Tiger.
He was born on February 6, 1914 in Norfolk, Nebraska.
Ravenscroft was educated at Otis College of Art and Design.
He was married to June Ravenscroft from 1946 until her death in 1999, they had two chidren.
Ravenscroft died on May 22, 2005 in Fullerton, California from prostate cancer, he was 91 years old.
singers from Nebraska
Northeast Greenland National Park is a national park in Greenland, Denmark.
It is the largest national park in the world, with an area of .
This makes the park larger than most countries.
It would place 31st if it were a country, just behind Egypt.
It is the only national park in Greenland, and the most northerly national park in the world.
Its most northerly point reaches slightly further than the most northerly point in Quttinirpaaq National Park in Canada.
The park was first created on 22 May 1974.
It came from the northern, practically uninhabited part of the former Ittoqqortoormiit Municipality in Tunu (East Greenland).
In 1988 the park was expanded by another  to its present size.
This was by adding the northeastern part of the former county of Avannaa (North Greenland).
In January 1977 it was made an international biosphere reserve.
An estimated 5,000 to 15,000 musk oxen, as well as many polar bears and walrus, can be found near the coastal regions of the park.
This is claimed to be 40% of the world population of musk ox.
Other mammals include arctic fox, stoat, collared lemming and arctic hare.
Other marine mammals include ringed seal, bearded seal, harp seal and hooded seal as well as narwhal and Beluga whale.
The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped.
It is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.
Features of this earless seal include square front flippers and thick bristles on its muzzle.
Adults are greyish-brown in colour, darker on the back.
Occasionally the face and neck are reddish-brown.
Bearded seal pups are born with a greyish-brown fur with scattered patches of white on the back and head.
The bearded seal is unique in the subfamily Phocinae in having two pairs of teats.
This is a feature it shares with monk seals.
Bearded seals are about  to  in nose-to-tail length.
They are  to  in weight.
Both sexes are about the same size.
Bearded seals are a main food source for polar bears and for the Inuit of the Arctic coast.
The body fat content of a bearded seal is 30–40%.
Hunting and Diet
Bearded seals feed on a variety of small prey found along the ocean floor, including clams, squid, and fish.
Their whiskers serve as feelers in the soft bottom sediments.
Adults tend not to dive very deep.
They like shallow coastal areas no more than  deep.
Pups up to one year old will venture much deeper, diving as deep as .
Reproduction and Lifecycle
In the Canadian Arctic, seal pupping is in May.
Further south, in Alaska, most pups are born in late April.
Pups are born on small drifting ice floes in shallow waters.
They usual weigh around 30–40 kg.
They enter the water only hours after they are born, and quickly become very good divers.
Mothers care for the pups for 18–24 days.
During this time the pups grow at an average rate of 3.3 kg per day.
Pups consume an average of eight liters of milk a day.
By the time they are weaned, the pups have grown to about one hundred kilograms.
Females ovulate at the end of their lactation period, but stay close to their pups, ready to defend them if necessary.
During the mating season, male seals will "sing".
This sound may attract females, or may be used by the males to say what territory is theirs or their readiness for breeding.
Males live in the same areas from one year to the next.
The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped.
It is found only in the central and western North Atlantic.
It ranges from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.
The male has a peculiar inflatable bladder on the head.
This bladder hangs between his eyes and down over his upper lip in the deflated state.
In addition, he can inflate a large balloon-like sac from one of his nostrils.
The bulge develops when the seal is four years old.
The male can blow up this bulge, so that it is the size of its head.
Adult males are  long on average, and weigh .
Females are much smaller:  long and weighing .
The colour is silvery; the body is scattered with dark, irregular marks.
The head is darker than the rest of the body, and without marks.
Pups are about  long at birth and weigh about .
They are born on the ice from mid-March to early April.
They are born with a slate blue-grey coat with a pale cream color on the belly.
They moult after about 14 months.
Nursing of the pup lasts for an average of only 4 days.
This is the shortest lactation period of any mammal.
During the 4 days the pup doubles in size, gaining around 7 kg/day.
This is possible because the milk that they drink has a fat content of 60%.
The female pup will mature between ages 3 and 6.
The male pup will mature between ages 5 and 7.
The barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese.
This genus has species with largely black plumage, setting them apart from the grey Anser species.
The barnacle goose is a medium-sized goose,  long.
Its wingspan is  and the body mass is .
It has a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast.
Its belly is white.
The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars that look like they are shining when the light reflects on it.
During flight a V-shaped white rump patch and the silver-gray underwing linings can be seen.
Barnacle geese often build their nests high on mountain cliffs.
This keeps them away from predators (mostly Arctic foxes and polar bears) but also away from food.
Instead of bringing food to the newly hatched goslings, the goslings are brought to the ground.
Unable to fly, the three day old goslings jump off the cliff and fall.
Their small size, feathery down, and very light weight helps to protect most of them from serious injury when they hit the rocks below.
Some do die from the fall.
Arctic foxes are attracted by the noise made by the parent geese during this time.
They eat dead or injured goslings.
The foxes also stalk the young as they are led by the parents to wetland feeding areas.
Goose, Barnacle
The pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard.
It winters in northwest Europe, especially Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark.
It is a medium-sized goose, 60–75 cm (24–30 in) long.
The wingspan is 135–170  (53–67 in) cm.
It weighs 1.8–3.4 kg (4–7.5 lbs).
It has a short bill, bright pink in the middle with a black base and tip, and pink feet.
The body is grey-brown, the head and neck a richer, darker brown, the rump white, and the tail grey with a broad white tip.
Nesting is often on cliffs close to glaciers.
This gives protection from mammalian predators (mainly Arctic Fox).
Three to six eggs are laid in early to mid May in Iceland, late May in Svalbard.
Incubation lasts 26–27 days.
On hatching, the goslings go with the parents on foot to the nearest lake.
They fledge after about 56 days.
Southbound migration is from mid September to early October, and northbound from mid April to early May.
In summer, they feed on a wide range of tundra plants, both on land and in water.
In winter, they graze mostly on oilseed rape, sugar beet, potato, and various grasses.
Damage to crops can be large.
The common eider (Somateria mollissima) is a large sea-duck.
They live on the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia.
It breeds in Arctic and some northern temperate regions.
They winter farther south in temperate zones.
There it can form large flocks on coastal waters.
It can fly at speeds up to 113 km/h (70 mph).
The common eider is both the largest of the four eider species and the largest duck found in Europe and in North America.
It measures  in length, weighs  and spans  across the wings.
It has a bulky shape and large, wedge-shaped bill.
The female is a brown bird.
It can be told apart from all ducks, except other eider species, because of size and head shape.
This duck's call is a pleasant "ah-ooo".
The species is often readily approachable.
This species dives for crustaceans and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food.
The eider will eat mussels by swallowing them whole; the shells are then crushed in their gizzard and excreted.
When eating a crab, the Eider will remove all of its claws and legs, and then eat the body in a similar fashion.
Social behaviour
Eiders are colonial breeders.
They nest on coastal islands in colonies ranging in size of less than 100 to upwards of 10,000-15,000 individuals.
Female eiders often return to breed on the same island where they were hatched.
This can lead to a high degree of relatedness between individuals nesting on the same island.
The king eider (Somateria spectabilis) is a large sea duck.
It breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia.
The birds spend most of the year in coastal marine ecosystems at high latitudes.
They migrate to the Arctic tundra to breed in June and July.
They lay four to seven eggs in a scrape on the ground lined with grass and down.
The king eider winters in arctic and subarctic marine areas, most notably in the Bering Sea, the west coast of Greenland, eastern Canada and northern Norway.
It also happens yearly off the northeastern United States, Scotland and Kamchatka.
Breeding areas include the Arctic coastal tundra of the north coast of Alaska.
This species dives for benthic invertebrates, such as crustaceans, polychaete worms, and molluscs, with mussels being a favoured food.
Wintering birds can form large flocks on suitable coastal waters, with some flocks bigger than 100,000 birds.
This species is smaller than the common eider.
The male is unmistakable with its black body, white breast and multicoloured head.
The drake's call is a deep cooing.
They can still be told apart from all ducks except other eider species on size and structure.
The head is shorter than in the common eider, and the feathering onto the bill is rounded, not triangular in shape.
Traditional Uses
The king eider is a regular source of fresh meat in the spring.
They begin their migration past the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in late April and are hunted in great numbers.
In May, several hundred thousand eiders pass Point Barrow in northern Alaska on their way to Alaskan and Canadian breeding grounds.
Joyce Randolph (born Joyce Sirola October 21, 1924) is an American actress.
She played Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners.
Randolph was born on October 21, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan.
She was married to Richard Lincoln Charles from 1955 until his death in 1997.
She is the last living Honeymooners cast member.
"Colonel" Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American entrepreneur.
He started the company Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Sanders was born in Henryville, Indiana on September 9, 1890.
He studied at Southern University.
He was married to Josephine King until they divorced.
He later married Claudia Price.
Sanders had 3 children.
He died on December 16, 1980 in Louisville, Kentucky from leukemia and pneumonia.
The Ziegler polar expedition of 1903–1905 was a failed attempt to reach the North Pole.
The party was stranded north of the Arctic Circle for two years before being rescued.
All but one of its members survived.
The expedition was paid for by William Ziegler and led by Anthony Fiala.
They left from Tromsø, Norway, on June 14, 1903, aboard America.
Ziegler chose Anthony Fiala, who was a photographer on an earlier mission, to lead his second polar trip.
Fiala calculated that the food for an eight dog team and driver would be at least 1100 pounds.
This was an issue, as the most a sled could hold was 600 pounds.
He planned to use ponies to carry the extra supplies.
Then to feed the dogs on horse meat when the supplies were low.
Isolation and rescue
In November 1903 severe weather started.
The ship broke up, destroying the provisions and coal.
The following spring, more tries were made to reach the pole by traveling both east and west.
The conditions were too severe, and open water caused difficulties.
Supplies ran low, and the expedition headed south.
They reached depots at Cape Flora, Cape Dillion, and Camp Ziegler.
William Peters, who was second in command, took this time to lead the crew in survey work.
This helped to make maps and charts better.
With the knowledge that rescue ships would be sent to them, the expedition stayed hopeful.
A rescue party, led by William S. Champ aboard the Terra Nova, sailed direct to the ice fields.
On July 24, they encountered thick ice.
This made the crew doubt they could reach their destination.
However the ship reached Palmi Island on July 28 and Cape Dillion the following day.
6 expedition members were found there.
More members were found at Cape Flora, and the Terra Nova returned to Cape Dillion.
A sled party was organized, which brought back the crew.
Chan's megastick (Phobaeticus chani) is a species of stick insect.
It is the longest insect in the world.
One specimen in the London Natural History Museum  measures .
This is with the front legs fully extended.
The body is  long.
Named after amateur Malaysian naturalist, Datuk Chan Chew Lun, only six specimens are known, all from the state of Sabah in Borneo.
Very little is known about its biology, but it may live in the canopy of the rainforest, making it especially hard to find.
However, there is no evidence, and the related Phobaeticus kirbyi is found on low growing vegetation alongside rainforest paths.
Phobaeticus chani was selected as one of "The Top 10 New Species" described in 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and an international committee of taxonomists.
The species was also listed as one of the top ten discoveries of the decade in a BBC television documentary (broadcast in either 2010 or 2011).
Phasmid Study Group: Phobaeticus chani
Image of insect
The Universität Mainz (; abbreviation: JGU) is a university in Mainz, Germany.
It was founded in the year 1477.
In 2012, there were more than 36,000 students.
Social sciences, Media and Sport
Jurisprudence and Economics
Physics, Mathematics and Computer science
Chemistry, Pharmacy and Earth sciences
Website of the University of Mainz
Mainz, University
is a Japanese city in Tochigi Prefecture.
In the Edo period.
Tochigi was a significant city.
In the early Meiji period, the city of Tochigi was the Prefectural capital of the old Tochigi Prefecture.
After the old Utsunomiya Prefecture and Tochigi Prefecture merged, Tochigi City was briefly the prefectural capital.
The capital was moved to Utsunomiya soon after.
http://www.city.tochigi.tochigi.jp/hp/menu000001000/hpg000000364.htm ; http://www.city.tochigi.tochigi.jp/
A photographic memory, or eidetic memory, is the ability to remember images or objects in great detail after seeing them for only a short time.
The existence of this ability is disputed.
The claims made differ somewhat, but stress the recall of visual information.
Examples of the information include: pages from books, magazines, and license plate numbers.
It is claimed that those with a photographic memory tend to have higher IQs than those without it.<ref name=brit>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/180955/eidetic-image "Eidetic image", Encyclopaedia Britannica]</ref> A person with this ability does not use mnemonics.
Sceptics
Some do not believe this skill exists.
The American cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind'' (1988), thought that reports of photographic memory were an “unfounded myth”.
Adriaan de Groot studied the ability of chess grandmasters to memorize the positions of chess pieces on a chess board.
At first, people thought they had photographic memory because they could memorize far more information than nonexperts.
However, arrangements of pieces that could never occur in a game, their recall was no better than nonexperts.
This suggests that they only have an ability to remember certain types of information, rather than photographic memory.
Around 1970, Charles Stromeyer studied his future wife, Elizabeth.
He claimed that she could recall poetry written in a foreign language which she did not understand.
She could remember the poetry years after she had first seen the poem.
She also could, apparently, recall random dot patterns so as to combine two patterns into a stereoscopic image.
She is the only person who is known to have passed such a test.
The methods used in the testing procedures were not clear.
Additionally, the tests have never been repeated (Elizabeth has consistently refused to repeat them).
This raised further concerns, and increased skepticism about whether photographic memories were real.
Barnard Courtois (12 February 1777–27 September 1838) was a French chemist born in Dijon, France.
He discovered iodine.
Kaymak  is  a Turkish dairy product.
It is similar to clotted cream.
Traditional Turkish kaymak is made from water buffalo milk, but it can also be made from cow milk.
Kaymak is main part of Turkish breakfast.
It can be eaten at breakfast with honey or served with desserts.
is a Japanese city in Nagasaki Prefecture.
During the Edo period, Hirado was the seat of the Hirado Domain.
The city developed around Hirado Castle (Hirado-jō).
The first Frenchman to arrive in Japan was Francis Caron.
He live in Hirado.
The city is located on the island of the same name; and it has expanded to the  island of Kyūshū.
The two parts of the city are connected by the Hirado Bridge which was built in 1977.
http://www.city.hirado.nagasaki.jp/english/home.htm ;
American Friendship Doll at Hirado Kindergarten
Settlements in Nagasaki Prefecture
Shambali () is a Middle Eastern sweet cake.
It is cake made of semolina sweetened with syrup and topped with peanut.
Its shape is rectangular.
It is also known in most of the countries which formed the Ottoman Empire.
Its name means "Damascus honey" () and shambali can also be called Damascus dessert.
It is made of bitter almonds, sugar and egg whites and topped with almonds.
Its paste contains almond extract.
A bitter almond cookie is similar to a macaroon.
is a Japanese city in Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.
Today it is the center of a military district of the  or JMSDF.
Sasebo Tourist Information site  in English
Yehoshua Sofer () is an Israeli hip hop musician and martial artist.
He was born in 1958 as Nigel Wilson in Jamaica.
His family moved to Los Angeles in 1963.
There, he studied Tang Soo Do and got a black belt by 1968; at that time, he was just ten.
He studied Kuk Sool Won from 1974, and worked as a trainer and bodyguard during the 1970s and 1980s.
Abir Warriors
Jamaican people
is a Japanese city on  in Niigata Prefecture.
In the Edo period, gold was discovered on the island.
The Tokugawa shogunate took direct control of it.
It was administered by an official called the Sado-bugyō.
Okubo Nagayasu was appointed to this position by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603.
Sado Tourism Association English language site
Sado City website
Sado Island at JNTO.go.jp
Joseph Black (16 April 1728 - 6 December 1799) was a French-Scottish scientist, physicist, and inventor.
He is known for his research on carbon dioxide, latent heat, and specific heat.
He also invented the analytic scale.
A whipping boy was a young boy who grew up with a young prince.
If the prince did something wrong, the whipping boy was punished instead of the prince.
Because both grew up together, punishing the whipping boy had strong psychological effects on the prince.
In England this was very common.
For instance, the English king Charles I had many whipping boys for his son.
False memory syndrome is a medical condition where the memory of a person does not match what actually happened.
People with this condition believe their memories, they are usually not aware that the memories may be incorrect.
People with the condition often witnessed a traumatic event: In order to cope, people "invent" new memories.
Emil Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, talked about memory falsification, in 1886.
Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American movie, stage, and television actor who was known for his role as Captain Merrill Stubing in The Love Boat and as Murray Slaughter in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
He was born in Mount Kisco, New York on February 28, 1931.
He was married to Joan Devore from 1954 until they divorced in 1972, they had four children.
He was married to Patti Kending from 1972 until they divorced in 1982 and remarried in 1985.
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Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto, August 3, 1926) is an American singer who is best known for his song I Left My Heart in San Francisco.
He was born at St John’s Hospital in Long Island, New York.
He has many awards including a Grammy Award.
Bennett is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.
In 2014, Bennett made an album with Lady Gaga titled Cheek to Cheek.
Official Tony Bennett music website
Official Tony Bennett art website
Susan Elizabeth "Suzy" Amis (born January 5, 1962) is a former American movie, television actress, and model who is known for her role as Lizzy Calvert in Titanic.
and for being the wife of Academy Award-winning director James Cameron since 2000; they have three children.
She retired from acting in 1999.
Actors from Oklahoma City
Models from Oklahoma
Lance LeGault (William Lance Legault, May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012) was an American movie, television, and voice actor.
He was known for his many television roles, mostly in The A-Team.
He was married to Theresa LeGault from 1984 until his death in 2012.
He died on September 10, 2012 in his home in Los Angeles, California from unknown causes.
Robert Flemyng (January 3, 1912 – May 22, 1995) was an English movie, stage, voice, radio and television actor who is known for his role as Professor Bernard Hichcock in The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962).
He was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England.
Flemyng was married and had one child.
He died on May 22, 1995 in London, England from pneumonia, he was 83 years old.
The , also known as the , are a chain of Japanese islands in a line between Kyushu and Taiwan.
The native people of the Ryūkyū Islands are the Ryūkyūan people and its native languages are the endangered Ryukyuan languages.
In the islands, the  dates from the middle 14th century.
It entered into a tributary relationship with Imperial China.
In 1765, the islands were described by Hayashi Shihei in Sangoku Tsūran Zusetsu.
1314: Kingdoms of Nanzan, Chūzan, and Hokuzan are founded
1429: Ryūkyū Kingdom is founded
1609: Ryūkyū Kingdom is invaded by the Satsuma Domain, causing its vassal status to Japan and its loss of the Amami Islands
1872: creation of the Ryūkyū Domain, 1872-1879
1879: creation of Okinawa Prefecture
1945: Battle of Okinawa
1972: United States gives the Ryūkyū Islands back to Japan
The Islands are separated into two geographical regions: the Northern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Amami Island, and the Southern Ryūkyū Islands, centered on Okinawa Island.
Sometimes the Southern Ryūkyū Islands are further divided into the Okinawa Islands and the Sakishima Islands.
Karate was invented by the local people (mainly from Okinawa).
The Japanese phrase "Karate-do" means "way of the empty hand").
Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American movie, television, and voice actor who is known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in How I Met Your Mother.
He has also appeared in The Muppets (2011).
He was partners with actress Michelle Williams from 2012 through early 2013.
Kang Hee-gun (; born February 24, 1978) is a South Korean rapper.
He is better known by his stage name, Gary ().
He is also a former cast member of the variety show Running Man and musician of hip-hop duo Leessang.
Leessang Unplugged
Baekahjeolhyun (伯牙絶絃, 백아절현)
Library Of Soul
Leessang Special
Jae, Gyebal (재,계발)
SBS's Running Man (런닝맨),Cast member, 2010-2017
2012: Wonderful Radio - cameo appearance
2008: Dachimawa Lee - cameo appearance
South Korean musicians
Birthname: Kang Hee-gun (Hangul: 강희건)
Date of Birth:
Height:
Position: Rapper, Leader
Birthname: Gil Seong-joon (Hangul: 길성준)
Position: Vocalist
Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III, March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-American movie, stage, television actor, television producer and director, writer, comedian, and musician.
He is known for playing Ricky Ricardo in I Love Lucy.
He was born in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
He was married to Lucille Ball from 1940 until they divorced in 1960.
They had a son named Desi Jr, and a daughter named Lucie.
Then he was married to Edith Mack Hirsh from 1963 until her death in 1985.