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It is also different, though related, to self-centredness and self-affirmation.
Many psychologists approve of a healthy level of selfishness, in order for some people to stay happy.
In the study of ethics and morality, selfishness is usually considered bad.
In contrast, acts of selflessness are praised.
Wider debate about it, however, such as in philosophy, psychology and economics, has shown that scholars have had many different opinions about its value and consequences.
In most major religions, selfishness is considered an immoral or bad habit.
In Christianity, it is associated with pride, often considered the worst of the Seven deadly sins.
Aristotle condemned men who would only try to profit themselves; but he approved of those who would try to gain the praise from others that he deserved.
In the context of modern-day economics, there is a much wider opinion.
Bernard Mandeville has argued that the economic advancement of society depends on selfish actions.
Ayn Rand argued that selfishness is a virtue and the cause of all progress.
What is Selfish?
Judgment Day (2000) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
It was held on May 20, 2000 at the Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
It was the second Judgment Day event held by the WWF and the first annual.
Official Judgment Day 2000 website
The arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre is an arrondissement of France.
It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées département in the Occitanie region.
Its capital is the city of Bagnères-de-Bigorre.
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Bagnères-de-Bigorre was one of them in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
It is the largest of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of , but the second in population with 46,384 inhabitants; its population density is of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Tarbes, to the  east by the Haute-Garonne department, to the south by Spain and to west by the arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost.
In the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, there is only 1 canton with all its communes in the arrondissement, the canton of Neste, Aure et Louron with 62 communes.
The arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre has 171 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Adervielle-Pouchergues (65003)
Ancizan (65006)
Anères (65009)
Anla (65012)
Antichan (65014)
Antist (65016)
Aragnouet (65017)
Ardengost (65023)
Argelès-Bagnères (65024)
Arné (65028)
Arreau (65031)
Arrodets (65034)
Artiguemy (65037)
Aspin-Aure (65039)
Asque (65041)
Asté (65042)
Astugue (65043)
Aulon (65046)
Avajan (65050)
Aventignan (65051)
Aveux (65053)
Avezac-Prat-Lahitte (65054)
Azet (65058)
Bagnères-de-Bigorre (65059)
Banios (65060)
Bareilles (65064)
Barrancoueu (65066)
La Barthe-de-Neste (65069)
Batsère (65071)
Bazus-Aure (65075)
Bazus-Neste (65076)
Beaudéan (65078)
Benqué-Molère (65081)
Bertren (65087)
Bettes (65091)
Beyrède-Jumet (65092)
Bize (65093)
Bizous (65094)
Bonnemazon (65096)
Bonrepos (65097)
Bordères-Louron (65099)
Bourg-de-Bigorre (65105)
Bourisp (65106)
Bramevaque (65109)
Bulan (65111)
Cadéac (65116)
Cadeilhan-Trachère (65117)
Camous (65122)
Campan (65123)
Camparan (65124)
Campistrous (65125)
Cantaous (65482)
Capvern (65127)
Castelbajac (65128)
Castillon (65135)
Cazarilh (65139)
Cazaux-Debat (65140)
Cazaux-Fréchet-Anéran-Camors (65141)
Chelle-Spou (65143)
Cieutat (65147)
Clarens (65150)
Créchets (65154)
Ens (65157)
Esbareich (65158)
Escala (65159)
Esconnets (65162)
Escots (65163)
Esparros (65165)
Espèche (65166)
Espieilh (65167)
Estarvielle (65171)
Estensan (65172)
Ferrère (65175)
Fréchendets (65179)
Fréchet-Aure (65180)
Galan (65183)
Galez (65184)
Gaudent (65186)
Gazave (65190)
Gembrie (65193)
Générest (65194)
Génos (65195)
Gerde (65198)
Germ (65199)
Gouaux (65205)
Gourgue (65207)
Grailhen (65208)
Grézian (65209)
Guchan (65211)
Guchen (65212)
Hauban (65216)
Hautaget (65217)
Hèches (65218)
Hiis (65221)
Houeydets (65224)
Ilhet (65228)
Ilheu (65229)
Izaourt (65230)
Izaux (65231)
Jézeau (65234)
Labassère (65238)
Labastide (65239)
Laborde (65241)
Lagrange (65245)
Lançon (65255)
Lannemezan (65258)
Libaros (65274)
Lies (65275)
Lombrès (65277)
Lomné (65278)
Lortet (65279)
Loudenvielle (65282)
Loudervielle (65283)
Loures-Barousse (65287)
Lutilhous (65294)
Marsas (65300)
Mauléon-Barousse (65305)
Mauvezin (65306)
Mazères-de-Neste (65307)
Mazouau (65309)
Mérilheu (65310)
Mont (65317)
Montastruc (65318)
Montégut (65319)
Montgaillard (65320)
Montoussé (65322)
Montsérié (65323)
Nestier (65327)
Neuilh (65328)
Nistos (65329)
Ordizan (65335)
Orignac (65338)
Ourde (65347)
Pailhac (65354)
Péré (65356)
Pinas (65363)
Pouzac (65370)
Recurt (65376)
Réjaumont (65377)
Ris (65379)
Sabarros (65381)
Sacoué (65382)
Sailhan (65384)
Saint-Arroman (65385)
Sainte-Marie (65391)
Saint-Lary-Soulan (65388)
Saint-Laurent-de-Neste (65389)
Saint-Paul (65394)
Saléchan (65398)
Samuran (65402)
Sarlabous (65405)
Sarp (65407)
Sarrancolin (65408)
Seich (65416)
Sentous (65419)
Siradan (65427)
Sost (65431)
Tajan (65437)
Thèbe (65441)
Tibiran-Jaunac (65444)
Tilhouse (65445)
Tournous-Devant (65449)
Tramezaïgues (65450)
Trébons (65451)
Troubat (65453)
Tuzaguet (65455)
Uglas (65456)
Uzer (65459)
Vielle-Aure (65465)
Vielle-Louron (65466)
Vignec (65471)
Bagneres-de-Bigorre
The arrondissement of Tarbes is an arrondissement of France.
Its capital, and of the department, is the city of Tarbes.
When the Hautes-Pyrénées department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Tarbes was part of that original department and was made the capital (préfecture) of it.
It is the most northern of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of , the second in area of the department.
It is the most populated arrondissement with 143,753 inhabitants and a population density of  inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement of Tarbes is bordered to the north by the Gers department, to the  east by the Haute-Garonne department, to the south arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, to the southwest by the arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost and to west by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department.
In the arrondissement of Tarbes, there are 10 cantons with all its communes in the arrondissement.
The arrondissement of Tarbes has 212 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Allier (65005)
Andrest (65007)
Angos (65010)
Ansost (65013)
Antin (65015)
Arcizac-Adour (65019)
Aries-Espénan (65026)
Artagnan (65035)
Aubarède (65044)
Aureilhan (65047)
Aurensan (65048)
Auriébat (65049)
Averan (65052)
Azereix (65057)
Barbachen (65061)
Barbazan-Debat (65062)
Barbazan-Dessus (65063)
Barry (65067)
Barthe (65068)
Bazet (65072)
Bazillac (65073)
Bazordan (65074)
Bégole (65079)
Bénac (65080)
Bernac-Debat (65083)
Bernac-Dessus (65084)
Bernadets-Debat (65085)
Bernadets-Dessus (65086)
Betbèze (65088)
Betpouy (65090)
Bonnefont (65095)
Bordères-sur-l'Échez (65100)
Bordes (65101)
Bouilh-Devant (65102)
Bouilh-Péreuilh (65103)
Boulin (65104)
Bours (65108)
Bugard (65110)
Burg (65113)
Buzon (65114)
Cabanac (65115)
Caharet (65118)
Caixon (65119)
Calavanté (65120)
Camalès (65121)
Campuzan (65126)
Castelnau-Magnoac (65129)
Castelnau-Rivière-Basse (65130)
Castelvieilh (65131)
Castéra-Lanusse (65132)
Castéra-Lou (65133)
Casterets (65134)
Caubous (65136)
Caussade-Rivière (65137)
Chelle-Debat (65142)
Chis (65146)
Cizos (65148)
Clarac (65149)
Collongues (65151)
Coussan (65153)
Devèze (65155)
Dours (65156)
Escaunets (65160)
Escondeaux (65161)
Estampures (65170)
Estirac (65174)
Fontrailles (65177)
Fréchède (65178)
Fréchou-Fréchet (65181)
Gardères (65185)
Gaussan (65187)
Gayan (65189)
Gensac (65196)
Gonez (65204)
Goudon (65206)
Guizerix (65213)
Hachan (65214)
Hagedet (65215)
Hères (65219)
Hibarette (65220)
Hitte (65222)
Horgues (65223)
Hourc (65225)
Ibos (65226)
Jacque (65232)
Juillan (65235)
Labatut-Rivière (65240)
Lacassagne (65242)
Lafitole (65243)
Lagarde (65244)
Lahitte-Toupière (65248)
Lalanne (65249)
Lalanne-Trie (65250)
Laloubère (65251)
Lamarque-Pontacq (65252)
Lamarque-Rustaing (65253)
Laméac (65254)
Lanespède (65256)
Lanne (65257)
Lansac (65259)
Lapeyre (65260)
Laran (65261)
Larreule (65262)
Larroque (65263)
Lascazères (65264)
Laslades (65265)
Lassales (65266)
Layrisse (65268)
Lescurry (65269)
Lespouey (65270)
Lhez (65272)
Liac (65273)
Lizos (65276)
Loucrup (65281)
Louey (65284)
Louit (65285)
Lubret-Saint-Luc (65288)
Luby-Betmont (65289)
Luc (65290)
Luquet (65292)
Lustar (65293)
Madiran (65296)
Mansan (65297)
Marquerie (65298)
Marsac (65299)
Marseillan (65301)
Mascaras (65303)
Maubourguet (65304)
Mazerolles (65308)
Mingot (65311)
Momères (65313)
Montfaucon (65314)
Monléon-Magnoac (65315)
Monlong (65316)
Montignac (65321)
Moulédous (65324)
Moumoulous (65325)
Mun (65326)
Nouilhan (65330)
Odos (65331)
Oléac-Debat (65332)
Oléac-Dessus (65333)
Organ (65336)
Orieux (65337)
Orincles (65339)
Orleix (65340)
Oroix (65341)
Osmets (65342)
Ossun (65344)
Oueilloux (65346)
Oursbelille (65350)
Ozon (65353)
Peyraube (65357)
Peyret-Saint-André (65358)
Peyriguère (65359)
Peyrun (65361)
Pintac (65364)
Poumarous (65367)
Pouy (65368)
Pouyastruc (65369)
Pujo (65372)
Puntous (65373)
Puydarrieux (65374)
Rabastens-de-Bigorre (65375)
Ricaud (65378)
Sabalos (65380)
Sadournin (65383)
Saint-Lanne (65387)
Saint-Lézer (65390)
Saint-Martin (65392)
Saint-Sever-de-Rustan (65397)
Salles-Adour (65401)
Sanous (65403)
Sariac-Magnoac (65404)
Sarniguet (65406)
Sarriac-Bigorre (65409)
Sarrouilles (65410)
Sauveterre (65412)
Ségalas (65414)
Séméac (65417)
Sénac (65418)
Sère-Rustaing (65423)
Séron (65422)
Siarrouy (65425)
Sinzos (65426)
Sombrun (65429)
Soréac (65430)
Soublecause (65432)
Soues (65433)
Souyeaux (65436)
Talazac (65438)
Tarasteix (65439)
Tarbes (65440)
Thermes-Magnoac (65442)
Thuy (65443)
Tostat (65446)
Tournay (65447)
Tournous-Darré (65448)
Trie-sur-Baïse (65452)
Trouley-Labarthe (65454)
Ugnouas (65457)
Vic-en-Bigorre (65460)
Vidou (65461)
Vidouze (65462)
Vielle-Adour (65464)
Vieuzos (65468)
Villefranque (65472)
Villembits (65474)
Villemur (65475)
Villenave-près-Béarn (65476)
Villenave-près-Marsac (65477)
Visker (65479)
The Kingdom of Mercia was an important monarchy in the English Midlands from the 6th century to the 10th.
From the mid-7th century until it ceased to exist as a kingdom, Mercia was the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Some of its rulers were the first to claim titles such as King of the English and King of Britain.
Mercia was one of the seven kingdoms of the Heptarchy.
Besides Mercia it included Northumbria, Wessex, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, and Sussex.
The first dynasty of Mercian kings are called the Iclingas.
The name comes from Icel who ruled the Mercians .
Members of this dynasty claimed to be descendants the royal family of their homeland in Western Europe.
Mercia became a dominant force under Penda from about  until his death in 655.
Bretwalda, his son, was the first Mercian overlord of the southern English.
For their successors in England see List of English monarchs.
Monarchs of Mercia
Iclingas
Icel (late 5th century–early 6th century) - Son of Eomer, King of the Angles.
Cnebba - Son of Icel
Cynewald - Son of Cnebba
Creoda (–) - Son of Cynewald.
Pybba (–) - Son of Creoda.
Cearl (–) - Listed by Bede
Penda (–655) - Son of Pybba.
Eowa (–642) - Co-ruled with Penda, son of Pybba.
Peada (655–655) - Son of Penda.
Oswiu of Northumbria (ruled Mercia 655–658) - King of Northumbria, took control of Mercia.
Wulfhere (658–675) - Son of Penda.
Aethelred - Son of Penda.
Coenred (704–709) - Son of Wulfhere.
Ceolred (709–716) - Son of Aethelred.
Ceolwald of Mercia (716) - Probable son of Aethelred, may have ruled briefly.
Aethelbald (716–757) - Grandson of Eowa.
Beornred of Mercia (757) - No known connection to Iclingas dynasty.
Offa (757–796) - Great-great-grandson of Eowa.
Ecgfrith (796) - Son of Offa.
Coenwulf (796–821) - A descendant of Pybba.
Ceolwulf I of Mercia (821–823) - Brother of Coenwulf.
Other dynasties
When the Iclingas line died out in the male line, members of other noble Mercian families competed for the throne.
The 'B' dynasty is for kings Beornwulf, Berhtwulf and Burgred.
The 'W' dynasty is for king Wiglaf.
Others have no dynasty they are connected with.
Beornwulf (823–826) - "B" dynasty.
Ludeca (826–827) - Unknown or no dynasty connections.
Wiglaf of Mercia (1st reign) (827–829) - "W" dynasty.
Egbert of Wessex (829–830) - King of Wessex who took control of Mercia.
Wiglaf of Mercia (restored to the throne) (830–839) - "W" dynasty.
Wigmund (–) - "W" dynasty, son of Wiglaf.
Wigstan (840) - "W" dynasty, son of Wigmund.
Aelfflaed of Mercia (840) - Daughter of Ceolwulf I, wife of Wigmund.
Regent for her son Wigstan.
Beorhtwulf (840–852) - "B" dynasty.
Burgred (852–874) - "B" dynasty.
Ceolwulf (874–) - Unknown dynasty.
Client rulers under Wessex
After being defeated by Alfred the Great, the king of Wessex, the rulers were no longer considered kings and queens but rather ealdormen.
The title of the female rulers was "Lady of the Mercians."
They were styled Kings and Queens in Mercia only.
Aethelred, Lord of the Mercians (–911) - Unknown dynasty.
Ethelflaeda, Lady of the Mercians (911–918) - Daughter of King Alfred of Wessex, wife of Aethelred.
Aelfwynn, Lady of the Mercians (918) - Daughter of Ethelflaeda and Aethelred.
Removed from her position by her uncle Edward the Elder, King of Wessex.
Rulers in name only
Athelstan (924) - Son of King Edward the Elder he became the first King of England.
Edgar of England (957–959) - Nephew of Edward the Elder he succeeded as King of England.
The Division of Hume is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales.
It was one of the 75 divisions set up for the first Federal election in 1901.
It was named after Hamilton Hume, one of the first Europeans to travel through the area.
The Division is in the central part of the state, north of the Australian Capital Territory.
The Division covers a predominantly rural area, with agriculture and coal mining the main industries.
It includes Bargo, Binalong, Boorowa, Bundanoon, Buxton, Caragabal, Colo Vale, Cootamundra, Cowra, Crookwell, Gooloogong, Goulburn, Grenfell, Gundaroo, Gunning, Harden/Murrumburrah, High Range, Hill Top, Joadja, Jugiong, Marulan, Murrumbateman, Oakdale, Picton, Quandialla, Stockinbingal, Sutton, Tahmoor, Tarago, The Oaks, Thirlmere, Wallendbeen, Wilton, Yass and Young.
Division of Hume - Australian Electoral Commission
Extreme Rules (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE.
It was held on May 19, 2013 at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
It was the fifth Extreme Rules event held by the WWE.
Official Extreme Rules 2013 website
East Pakistan central peace committee (, ) was one of several committees formed in 1971 by the administration of the Pakistan Army.
It was created to help stop the rebellion in the former East Pakistan region (what is now Bangladesh).
The rebels wanted independence for East Pakistan.
USS Ronald Reagan is a nuclear-powered naval ship in the service of the United States Navy.
The ninth ship of her class, she is named in honor of former President Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
Upon her christening in 2001, she was the first ship to be named for a former president still living at the time.
As of May 2012 the ship is operationally part of Carrier Strike Group Nine and administratively under the command of Commander, Naval Air Forces Pacific/Commander, Naval Air Forces.
The two administrative titles actually refer to one command carrying out two functions.
Ronald did not attend the christening of the USS Ronald Reagan because of his ill health from Alzheimer's disease.
His wife, Nancy Reagan, christened the naval ship along with then-President of the United States George W. Bush.
The official Ronald Reagan web site
U.S. Navy story archive for USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
USS Ronald Reagan history at U.S. Carriers
US Navy Aircraft Carrier Page
Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
Extreme Rules (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE.
It was held on April 29, 2012 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois.
It was the fourth Extreme Rules event held by the WWE.
Official Extreme Rules 2012 website
Manfred Rommel, Hon.
CBE (24 December 1928 – 7 November 2013) was a German politician.
He belonged to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
He was Lord Mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996.
He was the only son of Erwin Rommel and his wife Lucia Maria Mollin.
Rommel was born on 24 December 1928 in Stuttgart, Weimar Republic, Germany.
He was married to Liselotte Rommel from 1954 until his death in 2013.
They had a daughter, Cathrine Rommel.
Rommel died on 7 November 2013 from Parkinson's disease in Stuttgart, Germany.
WAS MACHT EIGENTLICH...: Manfred Rommel
She worked in Cinema of Mexico and in telenovelas.
Grandchildren of theatre couple  Jaime Rivelles and Amparo Guillén, Rivelles was the sister of famous Carlos Larrañaga actor, and aunt of Luis Merlo, Amparo Larrañaga and Pedro Larrañaga.
The Virginia Plan was a proposal made by Virginia delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
James Madison drafted the plan for a government with 3 subdivisions, or branches that would be equal in power.
It also proposed states with large populations have more representatives.
States with small populations would have fewer representatives.
The plan called for a congress with new powers to tax and make laws.
It also proposed a president and a supreme court.
Ultimately, this created a strong central government separated into three branches.
The resolutions went well beyond making minor changes to the Articles of Confederation.
It succeeded in expanding the debate to include basic changes to the structure and powers of the national government.
Brian William Pillman, Sr. (
May 22, 1962 – October 5, 1997) was an American professional wrestler and football player.
He is known for competing in World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation in the 1990s.
Pillman was found dead by police in his Bloomington, Minnesota hotel room on October 5, 1997 from a previously undetected heart condition called arteriosclerotic heart disease.
That same night, Pillman was supposed to face Dude Love on the WWF pay-per-view Badd Blood: In Your House.
Jim Crockett Promotions / World Championship Wrestling
NWA United States Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Tom Zenk)
NWA World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with "Stunning" Steve Austin)
WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (two times)
WCW World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with "Stunning" Steve Austin)
He was ranked #84 of the top 500 singles wrestlers of the "PWI Years" by PWI in 2003.
Stampede Wrestling International Tag Team Championship (two times) (with Bruce Hart)
5 Star Match (1991) with Sting, Rick Steiner, and Scott Steiner vs. Ric Flair, Larry Zbyszko, Barry Windham, and Sid Vicious (February 24, WarGames match, WrestleWar)
Feud of the Year (1997) with Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Jim Neidhart, and Davey Boy Smith vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Most Underrated (1994)
Tag Team of the Year (1993) with Steve Austin as The Hollywood Blonds
In video games, third-person means the game shows the playable character on screen, allowing the camera to freely move around them.
This view is most common in action and action-adventure games.
Lythronax is an extinct genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur.
It lived about 80 million years ago (mya) in what is now southern Utah.
L. argestes is the oldest known tyrannosaurid based on its stratigraphic position.
Comparisons to its close relatives suggest that Lythronax would have been about  long, with a weight of around  and had a large skull filled with sharp teeth.
The rostrum is comparatively short: it makes up less than two thirds of the total skull length.
The whole skull is very broad, 0.4 times as wide as long.
Overall, the skull is similar to that of Tyrannosaurus and Tarbosaurus.
Its robust jaws have two sizes of teeth: its first five teeth are much larger than the other six.
Behind the skull, the rest of the skeleton is similar to that of other tyrannosaurids.
The Hudson Institute is an American conservative non-profit think tank based in Washington D.C.  It was founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.
The Institute is committed to innovative research and analysis that promotes ‘global security, prosperity and freedom’.
It promotes public policy change in accordance with its stated values:
"commitment to free markets and individual responsibility, confidence in the power of technology to assist progress, respect for the importance of culture and religion in human affairs, and determination to preserve America's national security".
Think tanks based in the United States
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces.
The RAND was started in 1946 inside the Douglas Aircraft Company.
It was set up as an independent corporation in 1948.
Since the 1950s, RAND research has helped form United States policy decisions on many issues: the space race, the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms confrontation, the creation of the Great Society social welfare programs, the digital revolution, and national health care.
It was best known for the doctrine of nuclear deterrence by mutually assured destruction (MAD), based upon their work with game theory.
Chief strategist Herman Kahn discussed the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War.
This led to Kahn being one of the models for "Dr Strangelove" in Dr. Strangelove.
In the movie, RAND is spoofed as the "BLAND Corporation".
The organization now works with other governments, private foundations, international organizations, and commercial organizations on a host of non-defence issues.
RAND techniques were based on operations research (O.R.) which started in World War II.
O.R. is the interdisciplinary application of scientific thinking to problem-solving.
It relies mostly on the hard sciences like physics and mathematics, and economics.
However, some famous biologists and social scientists have worked with RAND at times, and the importance of social ideas and thinking is more important than ever today.
RAND has about 1,700 employees and three principal North American locations: Santa Monica, California (headquarters); Arlington, Virginia; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The RAND Gulf States Policy Institute has offices in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jackson, Mississippi.
RAND Europe is located in Cambridge, England, and Brussels, Belgium.
The RAND-Qatar Policy Institute is in Doha, Qatar.
RAND's newest office is in Boston, Massachusetts.
RAND is also home to the Pardee RAND School, which is the world's largest Ph.
D.-granting program in policy analysis.
Unlike many other universities, all PARDEE RAND Graduate School students receive fellowships in order to cover their education costs.
RAND also offers a number of internship and fellowship programs allowing students and outsiders to assist in conducting research for RAND projects.
Most of these projects are short-term and are worked on independently with the mentoring of a RAND staff members.
RAND publishes the RAND Journal of Economics, a peer-reviewed journal of economics.
To date, 32 winners of a Nobel Prize, mainly in economics and physics, have been  associated with the RAND at some point in their career.
Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion, 27 May 1957), is an English singer-songwriter.
She is best known as the lead singer of rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1976–1996).
They released 11 studio albums in their career and two UK top ten singles, "Hong Kong Garden" and "Dear Prudence".
In 1981, Sioux and drummer Budgie made a side-project called The Creatures.
They released four studio albums and broke up in 2005.
In 1994 she released a single with Morrissey called "Interlude".
That year she also sang on a Hector Zazou song called "The Lighthouse".
In 2004 she started performing on her own as Siouxsie.
Her first solo album, Mantaray, was released in 2007.
In June 2013 she performed for the first time in five years at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
She plays guitar, piano, bass, and percussion.
Her voice is in the coloratura contralto range.
In 1991 Sioux married Budgie, the Banshees' drummer.
She said in an interview with The Sunday Times in 2007 that they had divorced.
She lives in France.
Siouxsie.com
The Brookings Institution is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. in the United States.
One of Washington's oldest think tanks, Brookings conducts research and education in the social sciences, mainly in economics, policy, government, foreign policy, and global economy and development.
In the University of Pennsylvania’s 2012 Global go-to think tanks report, Brookings is ranked the most influential think tank in the world.
"to provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system".
Brookings states that its scholars "represent diverse points of view" and describes itself as non-partisan.
The media describe Brookings as "liberal-centrist" or "centrist".
An analysis of Congressional records from 1993 to 2002 found that Brookings was referenced by conservative politicians almost as often as liberal politicians.
It got a score of 53 on a 1-100 scale with 100 the most liberal score.
The same study found Brookings to be the most frequently cited think tank by the U.S. media and  politicians.
Robert James Smith (born 30 May 1956) is an English musician.
He is best known for being the lead singer of The Cure.
He has been the only constant member in the band's 37-year history.
They have released 13 studio albums and 10 EPs.
Their biggest UK hit so far is "Lullaby", which reached number 5.
Their biggest US hit is "Lovesong".
He was also guitarist for Siouxsie and the Banshees and in 1982 he released an album called Blue Sunshine with the Banshees' Steven Severin under the name The Glove.
He has worked with other bands like Crystal Castles.
He has also sung songs on his own for movie soundtracks.
Smith can play guitar, bass guitar, double bass, keyboard, violin, flute and trumpet.
He has a tenor vocal range.
He is married to Mary Poole, who he met at the age of 14 in a drama class.
Smith was born in Blackpool, Lancashire.
In 1958, his family moved to Horley, Surrey.
In 1960, they moved to Crawley, West Sussex.
He was raised Catholic but later became an atheist.
His first band, The Crawley Goat Band, was at the age of 14.
In 1974, Smith was a member of a pub rock band called Malice.
Smith then formed a band with members of Malice called Easy Cure.
In 1976 they became The Cure.
In 1979 they released their first album, Three Imaginary Boys.
In 1999, Smith was going to end The Cure but Ross Robinson persuaded him not to.
Tim Burton gave Smith the Shockwaves NME Godlike Genius Award in 2006.
There have been lots of references to Smith in pop culture.
In 2004 in episode 11 of series 2 of The Mighty Boosh Vince Noir says to Howard Moon that he can spend the evening with two goth girls if he dresses like a goth.
Vince gives Howard a can of "Goth Juice: the most powerful hairspray known to man, made from the tears of Robert Smith".
Lush made a hair gel inspired by this called Goth Juice that says 'made from the tears of Robert Smith' on the pot, but they don't make it anymore.
Smith appeared in the twelfth episode of season 1 of South Park, "Mecha-Streisand" in 1998.
At the time the episode brought South Park their biggest number of viewers for an episode to date.
Musicians from Blackpool
The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)  is a British defence and security think tank.
It was founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington.
RUSI describes itself as "the leading forum in the UK for national and international Defence and Security".
It won Prospect Magazine's Think Tank of the Year Award 2008.
In 2009, the same magazine named RUSI "Foreign Policy Think Tank of the Year".
In 2011 RUSI celebrated its 180th Anniversary.
Zazen (literally "seated meditation"; ; ) is a form of meditation in Zen Buddhism.
It can calm the body and the mind.
Sarah Fimm is a singer-songwriter from Oklahoma.
Her first album, Cocooned, was released in 2001.
The Guennol Lioness is a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian statue found near Baghdad, Iraq.
It shows the form of a muscular anthropomorphic lioness-woman.
The sculpture sold for $57.2 million at Sotheby's auction house on December 5, 2007.
The sculpture was on loan to the Brooklyn Museum of Art until it was purchased at auction by an English collector.
The limestone sculpture is just over 8 cm (3.25 in) tall.
It was described by Sotheby's as "one of the last known masterworks from the dawn of civilization remaining in private hands".
One day before the auction, experts had been estimating that the highest bid would be between $14 million and $18 million.
At the time of its 2007 sale, the price paid at auction for the Guennol Lioness was the highest paid for a sculpture to that date.
It easily exceeded the record of Pablo Picasso's Tete de femme (Dora Maar).
On 3 February 2010, however, the second edition of the cast of the sculpture L'Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I) by Alberto Giacometti sold for £65,001,250 ($104,327,006) and overtook the Guennol Lioness as the most expensive sculpture ever sold at auction.
Many ancient Near East deities were represented as anthropomorphic figures.
Such images evoked the Mesopotamian belief in attaining power over the physical world by combining the superior physical attributes of various species.
It is possible that the nearby Sumerians borrowed this powerful artistic hybrid from the Proto-Elamites.
The lioness was the frequent subject of veneration among cultures familiar with the well-coordinated hunting of female lions.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, is an American singer and songwriter from New York.
She has sold about 19.1 million albums and 13 million singles around the world.
She has released six albums and four EPs since 2008.
She released her first EP "Kill Kill" as Lizzy Grant in 2008.
Two years later, she released her first studio album, titled Lana Del Ray, by 5 Points Records.
However, the album was pulled three months after its release.
She released her first single as Lana Del Rey, "Video Games", in August 2011.
It reached number one in the singles charts in Finland, Denmark,Germany, Japan, Slovakia, Scotland, and Luxembourg.
Her second album Born to Die reached number 1 in the UK Albums Chart when it was released on January 27, 2012.
Born to Die was reissued on November 9, 2012 as Born to Die: The Paradise Edition, which featured eight new songs.
The new songs were featured in the separate EP, Paradise.
In 2013 "Young and Beautiful" was on the soundtrack to The Great Gatsby.
Her third studio album, Ultraviolence, was released in 2014.
A short film, Tropico, was released on the website VEVO on December 5.
It has songs from her Paradise EP in it.
She has also modelled for H&M.
Del Rey's song "Young and Beautiful" was nominated for the award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2014 Grammy Awards.
Paradise was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.
On April 14, 2014, the first single from Ultraviolence, "West Coast", was released.
Her fourth studio album, Honeymoon, was released on September 18, 2015.
The fifth studio album of Del Rey, Lust for Life, was released on July 21, 2017.
Four singles were previously released, being "Love", title track "Lust for Life" with The Weeknd, "Summer Bummer" with ASAP Rocky and Playboi Carti, and "Groupie Love", also with ASAP Rocky.
Del Rey's sixth studio album, Norman Fucking Rockwell!,
was released on August 30, 2019.
The album was well-received by critics.
Del Rey was born in New York City.
Lana began singing in her Church choir at a young age, where she was the cantor.
When she was fifteen she was sent to Kent School, a boarding school in Connecticut, to deal with her alcoholism.
When she was 18 she moved to Bronx to study metaphysics at Fordham University.
Kill Kill (2008)
Lana Del Rey (2012)
Paradise (2012)
Tropico (2013)
Lana Del Ray (2010)
Born to Die (2012)
Ultraviolence (2014)
Honeymoon (2015)
Lust for Life (2017)
Norman Fucking Rockwell! (
Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021)
Blue Banisters (2021)
Official websit
Kelly Chen Wai-lam (born 13 September 1972) is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actress.
She sings in Cantonese, English, Japanese, and Mandarin.
She has released thirty-two studio albums.
In 2009 the World Economic Forum chose her as one of the year's "Young Global Leaders".
She has appeared in many TV commercials.
She is signed to the record label Go East Entertainment Ltd, HK.
In 2002 she started the Kelly Chen Children Education Fund.
Aminah bint Wahb ( ; died 577 AD) was the mother of the prophet Muhammad.
577 deaths
Léa Hélène Seydoux-Fornier de Clausonne (born 1 July 1985) is a French actress.
In 2013, she won the Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the movie Blue Is the Warmest Colour.
She is also known for her role as Bond girl Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015), and reprise the role in No Time to Die (2021).
St. Bees School is a boarding school for boys and girls aged 4-18 in St. Bees, a West Cumbrian village.
It was started in 1583 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Edmund Grindal as a boys' "free grammar school".
The term 'free' did not mean that the school didn't charge the students, but that the school wasn't ruled by the Church.
In 1976 the school became open to girls.
The school grounds are about 250 acres (1,000,000 m2).
Extreme Rules (2010) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment.
It was held on April 25, 2010 at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
It was the second Extreme Rules event held by the WWE.
Official Extreme Rules 2010 website
2010s in Baltimore
Daughter is an English indie rock band from London.
They released their first album If You Leave in 2013, which reached 16 in the UK Albums Chart.
At first, Daughter was just a name for the music of singer Elena Tonra.
Then Tonra met guitarist Igor Haefeli and drummer Remi Aguilella at London's the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance and made Daughter a band.
Haefeli is Tonra's boyfriend.
In April 2011 they released their first EP, His Young Heart.
On October 2 2011 their second EP was released by Communion Records.
In 2012 they were signed to the British record label 4AD.
Daughter's first single "Smother" was released in 2012. "
Youth" was played in UK drama Skins in the eighth episode of series six and in Grey's Anatomy and Mistresses.
In March 2013 Daughter's first album If You Leave was released by 4AD.
Daughter performed at the John Peel stage at Glastonbury Festival 2013.
This was the first time they were on UK TV.
They are currently touring Europe.
On 28 October 2013 the fourth single was released from If You Leave, "Amsterdam".
"Human", the third single from If You Leave, is on Zane Lowe's 100 Hottest Records of 2013.
In December 2013 NME put If You Leave on their list of 50 Best Albums Of 2013.
If You Leave (2013)
Not to Disappear (2016)
Music from Before the Storm (2017)
EP:s
Demos (2010)
His Young Heart (2011)
The Wild Youth (2011)
4AD Sessions (2014)
"Smother" (2012)
"Human" (2013)
"Youth" (2013)
"Doing the Right Thing" (2015)
"Numbers" (2015)
"How" (2016)
"No Care" (2016)
"The End" (2016
"Burn It Down" (2017)
Xiu Xiu is an American band formed in 2002.
The members are Jamie Stewart, the band's only constant member, Shayna Dunkelman, Ches Smith, and Angela Seo.
They have released 9 studio albums.
They released their first album, Knife Play, in 2002.
Pitchfork gave the album a score of 8.3/10.
In 2008 they released Women As Lovers.
The sixth song on the album, "Under Pressure", is a cover of a 1981 song by Queen and David Bowie.
Michael Gera sings in it.
The version of the album on American iTunes has seven extra tracks.
They released their ninth album, Always, in 2012.
On December 2 2012 they released an album of covers of Nina Simone songs called Nina.
Xiu Xiu released their ninth studio album Angel Guts: Red Classroom on February 4, 2014.
Unclouded Sky will be released later in 2014.
Bath Spa railway station is the main railway station in the city of Bath, Somerset, in South West England It's served by First Great Western, South West Trains and CrossCountry.
It is on the Great Western Main Line and joins  the Wessex Main Line via Bradford-on-Avon.
This will also make the journey a lot quicker and smoother.
Changes to the station
First Great Western has manage Bath Spa.
As of 2005, the main building is listed (protected).
Building work has taken place at the station, like changes to the building, with the more lifts to the platforms.
They also have ticket barriers.
Philotes () was a minor Greek goddess.
She was a daughter of Nyx.
She is the personification of affection, sexual intercourse and friendship.
is a Japanese professional wrestler better known under the ring names, Jushin Liger and Jushin "Thunder" Liger.
He mainly works for New Japan Pro Wrestling which he has worked for since 1984.
He has competed many different professional wrestling companies in Japan and North America.
Liger worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1991 to 1999.
During his time in WCW, he won the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship when he defeated then-champion Brian Pillman during a house show in Atlanta, Georgia on December 25, 1991.
He held the title for 2 months and was defeated Pillman at SuperBrawl II.
He also challenged Konnan for the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship at Slamboree '96 but lost the match.
He also competed for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2005 to 2006.
Liger captained the New Japan team in the TNA 2006 World X Cup Tournament.
They defeated Petey Williams, captain of Team Canada at TNA Sacrifice on May 14, 2006 using a Crash Thunder Buster when Williams was distracted by the rest of Team Japan.
Liger was eliminated in the X-Cup Gauntlet later in the same night and Team Japan was not able to gain any points in the match as it was won by Team Canada with Team Mexico as runners up.
Liger was the innovator of the Shooting star press.
The Jushin Liger gimmick is based on an extremely popular anime superhero, Jushin Liger.
All-Star Promotions
World Heavy Middleweight Championship (two times)
CMLL Universal Championship (2010)
CMLL World Middleweight Championship (one time)
CMLL World Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Hiroshi Tanahashi)
Open the Dream Gate Championship (one time)
8Michinoku Pro Wrestling / North Eastern Wrestling
Super J Cup (2000)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (eleven times)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (six times) (with The Great Sasuke (one), El Samurai (one), Minoru Tanaka, (one), Koji Kanemoto (one), AKIRA (one), and Tiger Mask IV (one))
Top/Best of the Super Juniors (1992, 1994, 2001)
G1 Climax Junior Heavyweight Tag League (2001) (with El Samurai)
Naeba Cup Tag Tournament (2001) (with Yuji Nagata)
Young Lion Cup (1986)
Outstanding Performance Award (2000)
Tag Team Best Bout (2003) (with Koji Kanemoto vs. Kotaro Suzuki and Naomichi Marufuji on June 10)
Osaka Pro Wrestling Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Takehiro Murahama)
He was ranked #8 of the 500 best singles wrestlers by PWI in the PWI 500 in 2000.
He was ranked #12 by the PWI in the PWI Years in 2003.
GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship (one time)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Tiger Mask IV)
NTV G+ Cup Junior Heavyweight Tag League (2013) (with Tiger Mask IV)
WCW Light Heavyweight Championship (one time)
Wrestle Association R
WAR International Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (one time) (with El Samurai)
Super J Cup (1995)
5 Star Match (1994) (vs. The Great Sasuke on July 8)
Best Gimmick (1989)
Best Flying Wrestler (1989 to 1993)
Best Technical Wrestler (1989 to 1992)
Best Wrestling Maneuver (1987, 1988) (Shooting star press)
Match of the Year (1990) *vs. Naoki Sano on January 31 in Osaka, Japan)
Most Outstanding Wrestler (1990 to 1992)
Rookie of the Year (1984) tied with Tom Zenk
Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1999)
1Even though Liger won the championship, the win and reign aren't recognized by World Wrestling Entertainment.
No reign with the championship is recognized by the company before December 1997.
NJPW profile
Suffolk Coastal is a local government district in Suffolk, England.
Other towns include Felixstowe.
It was organized on April 1, 1974.
Guernésiais is a Norman language spoken on the Channel island of Guernsey.
It is related to the Jèrriais langauge on nearby Jersey island.
It is part of the Oïl languages family.
Only 2% of the island's people speak the language.
No Way Out (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
It was held on June 17, 2012 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
It was the twelfth No Way Out event held by the WWE.
Official No Way Out 2012 website
Jon Huber (December 16, 1979 – December 26, 2020) better known by his ring name Luke Harper, was an American professional wrestler.
He was a one-time WWE Intercontinental Champion.
Huber also wrestled in the North American independent circuit under the ring name Brodie Lee, working for promotions such as Alpha-1 Wrestling, Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling, Dragon Gate USA, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Ring of Honor.
He was born in Rochester, New York.
Erick Rowan was later introduced as Wyatt's "second son" and Harper started to team with Rowan.
They defeated Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu on the January 9, 2013 episode of NXT and defeated them again on the January 23 episode of NXT in the first round of the NXT Tag Team Championship tournament.
Harper and Rowan defeated Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty in the semi-finals but were defeated in the finals by Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey.
Harper and Rowan won a triple threat elimination tag match on the May 2 episode of NXT and defeated Neville and Bo Dallas, filling in for the injured Grey, on the May 8 NXT (taped on May 2) to win the tag titles.
On June 20, they lost the NXT Tag Team Championship to Adrian Neville and Corey Graves.
Vignettes became appearing on Raw to promote the upcoming debut of the Wyatt Family and they debuted on the July 8 episode of Raw when they attacked Kane.
He made his WWE in-ring debut in a tag team match on the July 26 episode of SmackDown, where he and Rowan defeated Tons of Funk (Brodus Clay and Tensai).
Harper and Rowan went on a winning streak over many teams for a couple months but suffered their first lost on the October 11 episode of SmackDown from Cody Rhodes and Goldust.
On the September 29 episode of Raw, there was a vignette aired where Wyatt set Harper free, saying that he fixed him and gave him a reason to exist.
On the November 10 episode of Raw, Harper made his TV return, throwing an unconscious Dolph Ziggler at Triple H and Stephanie McMahon's feet, and expressed his desire to join their team at Survivor Series against John Cena's team.
On the November 17 episode of Raw, he joined Team Authority and was immediately given a match for the Intercontinental Championship against Dolph Ziggler.
Harper would win the match and his first championship in the WWE.
Huber died on December 26, 2020 from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, ten days after his 41st birthday.
He was hospitalized for non-COVID-related lung problems in Jacksonville, Florida.
Alpha-1 Wrestling
A1 Zero Gravity Championship (one time)
JAPW New Jersey State Championship (one time)
JAPW Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Necro Butcher)
Next Era Wrestling
NEW Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Empire
NWA Empire Heavyweight Championship (one time)
NWA Mississippi
NWA Southern Television Championship (one time)
He was ranked #34 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2014.
Rochester Pro Wrestling/NWA Upstate/NWA New York
NWA Upstate Kayfabe Dojo Championship (one time)
NWA Upstate/NWA New York Heavyweight Championship (three times)
RPW Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Freddie Midnight)
RPW/NWA Upstate Television Championship (one time)
Squared Circle Wrestling
2CW Heavyweight Championship (two times)
World of Hurt Wrestling
WOHW United States Championship (three times)
Best Gimmick (2013) (The Wyatt Family)
NXT Tag Team Championship (one time) (with Erick Rowan)
Deaths from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
In Greek mythology, Apate was the personification of deceit.
She was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box.
Her father was Erebos, the personification of darkness.
List of figures in Greek mythology: Personified concepts
Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French activist, feminist, playwright, and political writer.
She was born in Montauban, France.
De Gouges never went to school.
She had strong opinions about politics, and she liked to write about her opinions.
In 1765, when de Gouges was 17, she married a French officer, named Louis Aubrey, who was older than her.
Three years later, Louis died of old age.
De Gouges was heartbroken, and never married again.
De Gouges wanted to be a writer.
So, she moved to Paris, and left her son behind.
She made a writer name out of her parents names mixed together.
She used high ranking men to gain power.
When she started writing, she wrote plays, political documents, and novels.
Some of her work was: Le Mariage inattendu de Cheacute;rubin and Zamore et Mirza ou l'Heureux naufrage.
She started to write documents about human rights, mostly for women.
At the time, France was divided about rights.
De Gouges may not have saved her country, but she did give her opinion to this debate.
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist.
He is most famous for his controversial study about obedience to authority figures.
In these experiments, Milgram showed that about two out of three people would follow orders of an authority figure to the point of risking the life of, or perhaps even killing, an innocent person.
He got the idea from the Holocaust.
He wrote a book about his experiments called Obedience to Authority.
The idea of six degrees of separation comes from Milgram's 1967 small-world experiment.
It has been criticized a lot, but in 2008 Microsoft found that the average chain of contacts between users of its '.NET Messenger Service' was 6.6 people.
A study published in the January 2014 volume of Computers in Human Behavior found that the average number of acquaintances separating people in unusual jobs is 3.9, and 3.2 for average Facebook users.
Theodor W. Adorno (; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German sociologist, philosopher, composer, and music theorist.
He designed the F-scale with other researchers at the University of California.
This scale tried to measure "the authoritarian personality", the "F" standing for "Fascist".
He wrote about this in the 1950 book The Authoritarian Personality.
He was a Marxist.
Nipissing University is a university in Ontario, Canada.
It is located in located in North Bay, Ontario.
Typhoon Haiyan (or Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines) is one of the strongest tropical cyclones in history.
It formed on November 3, 2013, in the western Pacific Ocean.
It began east-southeast of Pohnpei.
The storm later hit the Philippines with extremely high winds and a strong storm surge.
It has caused major damage in the Visayas.
At least 6,241 people died in the storm.
The director of Meteorology at Weather Underground, Jeff Masters, said this could be the strongest tropical system to reach land.
Haiyan's winds were near 195 miles an hour' Typhoon Haiyan or "Yolanda" Was a Intense Powerful Typhoon It Demolished Trees' Buildings Flanged Even Cars like Toys Trees On November 3Rd A Tropical Disturbance Started to Go to Warm Areas in the Pacific Ocean A Warm Tide Approaches The Guam Island and the Marianas.
425 Miles From The Japanese Island Chain.
It Was a Record Breaker For its Clouds Being 856 Miles High !
2010s in Oceania
Disasters in Taiwan
Natural disasters in China
The Cessna 140 is a light civilian aircraft.
It was designed and built in USA between 1946 and 1950.
At least more than 7600 examples were built.
It's a single-engine plane with a high wing.
Kibera is a slum in southwest Nairobi, Kenya.